Actor Quotes

I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.

I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.

I like to act with people that know what they're doing.

I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time.

I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.

I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.

I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.

For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.

A lot of films come out before they're finished.

I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.

You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.

The sun's going down and we can't afford to come back to it tomorrow.

That's probably a problem for some people in this business, they don't like to listen.

It's a job and we're going to work together for six months, so let's have a good time.

When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50.

Well for six years during Cheers I couldn't get another job.

We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.

Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me.

There's just something extraordinary about that Selma Hayek.

The war against terrorism is terrorism.

Some people make a great film and then they can't follow up.

So I just took some time off. I was maybe going to do two or three years and it turned into five years. But certainly, I'd say it was the best thing I ever did. And now I come back to this whole thing really energized about it.

Salma is just one of the great goddesses ever put on this Earth.

Right now there should be a moratorium on the cutting down of old growth in this country. That is a small thing to ask at this point. There is only four percent of old growth left. Ninety-six percent of it has been cut down.

In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical.

I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength.

I related to his disillusionment. Thinking that he was going for this big dream. Then he kind of saw through it all at one point and went back home. Then he started a bender, which I can relate to of course.

I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting.