Actor Quotes

What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.

Well, here's what I'll say: The storytellers of 'Lost' have taken us on a pretty great journey, and there have been questions along the way, and criticisms along the way, but if you look at the totality of the show, or the experience of it as a whole, I think as long as you look at it from that pers

There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy; it's what feeds me on stage and informs my choices.

My wife will tell you it's the little things, like driving my boys to school on my days off so she can rest. We're not into PDA, but every time we end a phone conversation, we say 'sarang,' which means love in Korean.

It saddens me to know that I jeopardized the welfare of the kind people of Hawaii, a community that I love and call my home.

I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.

I like to think that I'm not as ominous in real life.

I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.

But with two boys and a new puppy, we don't get out much. We're usually home doing stuff together as a family, like watching 'Modern Family.'

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.

Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.

Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.

The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.

The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.

That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.

News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.

Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.

It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.

If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.

I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.

I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

Acting is very immediate.

A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.

If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

I'm very wary of news on television.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.