The reason why most of actors got into acting was so that we could become other people and have fun with being somebody else.

I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field

I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up!

A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really.

I try to get on stage whenever I can. I'm always trying to be involved in the theater, doing something on stage, whenever I have downtime. I'm always looking for it.

Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.

The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married

I wanted to be an actor because it gave me the opportunity to express myself in ways I wasn't comfortable expressing myself, as a kid growing up in St. Louis.

The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read for a new show.

I never intended to be on television or in a movie. The theater was all I ever dreamed about, once I decided to try to make it as a business profession. All this other stuff has just been icing.

Acknowledging that all our land was stolen from Native people feels like too great a burden, so we create an alternative reality that allows us to disengage emotionally from the truth.

For when he was poor, he had an unpretentious heart, but when he became rich, he became filled with arrogance.

I do want you. More than my next breath.

He squinted at me. "What are you wearing? Is that some new form of birth control?

Remember, whoever is funny is king.

We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would retard it, it seems quite otherwise.

I’ve been round the world several times and now only banality still interests me.

The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in value to the bounty of July.

The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.

I think voice is like a good wine. If you work it well, it will mature.