People behave badly and people are in prison and people are on death row, and there are no excuses for everybody's behavior, but most people are coming from abuse.

Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them.

The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.

Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.

Sometimes you have to search for inspiration with characters, and other times, they just drop out of the sky and arrive.

My past is not pleasant; I grew up in a very tough town, Waterbury, Connecticut. I grew up in New York, too, but Waterbury was tougher.

Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything.

I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood.

Dark Blue is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever going to change.

I like the Polanski stuff more than anything else. Rosemary's Baby is still one of my favorite movies of all time. The idea of her being impregnated with the devil is just so frightening.

Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year.

Reality is like a fruitcake

Each moment is just that... a moment. Whether good or bad it will pass to the next. Forward to the next and create a wonderful life.

Any country on the face of the Earth with an active intelligence program knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.

If one's life depends on doing something right, as in the case of the tightrope walker, one will practice on a much deeper level.

Nusrat is one of the greatest singers of our time. When his singing takes off, his voice embodies soulfulness and sprituality like no other.

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.

The soul circumscribes all things.

Man is a bridge between the two worlds - the visible and the invisible.

I had a secret that I was bound to protect but a secret that i was not to share. A secert that suddenly he knew all about.

With a lot of kids in the business, the parents get as twisted as they do, and there's a lot of opportunities to go their own way, but anyone has that opportunity.