Quotes

I basically was a precocious little kid.

I couldn't physically compete on the street, so I would go in and write stories where I'd send the bully down the street to another planet, or have a piece of chrome off a car whap the guy down the street as he was causing us all these problems.

I did the final six shows of the first season of E.R.

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

I had my first play produced when I was 14; it was my way of competing in the neighborhood I grew up in, a sort of tough neighborhood.

I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

I want to make smart television.

I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.

I'm not a big fan of television; I've had a hard time over the years because I think the quality of the writing sort of starts to deteriorate.

If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer.

My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.

People are either enamored with me or wonder if they can take me.

People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success.

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.

I like to play bad guys, since good guys are always beaten up several times during the movie. Bad guys are beaten only once, in the end.

I get to bring these misshapen, emotionally unbalanced people to life.

If I didn't like the attention, I suppose I wouldn't be doing this job. What do you do? Destroy someone's fantasy about you or play it to the limit? I still haven't quite worked it all out and I don't know how to resolve it. It's said actors act because they fear death and it's the one and only certainty for some kind of immortality. My attitude is: screw the future, let's get on with here and now. You don't know how long it'll last.