My eyebrows make a more profound impact on [other] people than they do on me... I just let 'em grow.

Until you become a parent, you can't begin to discover your capacity for strength, love and fatigue.

There have been makeup artists who've asked if my eyebrows are real.

If you are sure that you are about to fail, then this strange and serene calmness can come over you or the most abject fear and panic and feeling of helplessness.

My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

To stay on the map, you've got to keep showing up.

I love playing a dad. It's hard to find family dramas that are genuinely funny.

In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed singing the song.

Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.

I made my Broadway debut in the revival of Hair and followed it up with the bus and truck tour of Grease.

If only thy eyes flutter once, the bees lose their direction and the fighting men their aim!

Even exciting places are boring most of the time. Wars. Movie sets. Emergency rooms.

The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

Plato worries our thinking might become too reflexive and comfortable with itself.

We need teachers. We need to be teachers. Knowing when for each, is wisdom

We face an essential need to reach a definition of terrorism that will enjoy wide international agreement, thus enabling international operations against terrorist organizations.

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.