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Quotes by Actor

"California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there."

"When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier."

"I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first."

"Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong."

"No, the seventies was a totally different sensibility and that allowed us to break new ground as a cop show."

"I don't know how long I'll be trick or treating. Maybe I'll be 80 years old and still trick or treating."


"As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end."


"What was bizarre, when I was younger, I never watched TV. I would rather watch a movie 100 times than to watch a TV show, just to find another nuance. I can't tell you how many times I've watched 'On the Waterfront', just to find a flaw so that I can learn and try to improve my thing."

"And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over."


"I had a director who told me a story about a fan who had commented on how nice it was to see her sister laughing and how happy the show made her. I like to make people happy and make them laugh."

"John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years."

"I'm quite looking forward to the fact that people know me as Richard rather than Craig."


"I think the film is beautifully realised. His legacy as a journalist was recorded - as it were - well, and certainly the important issues of the '50s - or even today - are delivered and presented to the audience in a rather honest and objective way."

"I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!"

"I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it's a sign that I'm moving up the ladder."

"I was nervous and hesitant about putting myself out there for the pie scene. But I went for it and the results were wonderful."

"Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully."

"I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me."


"Girls started noticing me a little bit more in senior year, and junior year, and that was weird."

"My favorite episode of Stargate? All of them! My favorite episode of Parker Lewis? All of them!"

"David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late '80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He's a very cool, hip guy. This film, let's face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he'd find it funny."


"I've certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older, I was more in charge of who I was. What someone thought about me or said about me made less of an impression on me at very vulnerable times."

"It's great to be able to have your feet in both worlds. I wouldn't want to be just stuck in one or the other."

"I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat."

"George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression."

"This past year has been something else... it's opened my eyes to many things and many people. It's had its ups and downs and ins and outs. And I believe we've all been able to take something from that and grow in our own imparticular ways. We've over come obstacles, and set in motion opportunities that can change our own individual lives."


"When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim."


"I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion."


"Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films."

"There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler."

"So I think what you see in this show is it's really not a just world at all, but you get what you give. So in terms of world view, I would say that's where the differences lie."
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