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Quotes by Actor

"I go wild on a stage. Some folks have measured us an image. They pretend us to be saints. And that image is much tougher to keep up with. Because that's not who we are."

"What you do with it and things like that, but I basically chose this after I read it because I thought it was different and funny and unique and dark - things that I like to do."


"Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission."

"Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality."

"Many years ago I was in another soap opera called The Newcomers which was on twice a week for three years. I really don't think I could do another stint like that again."


"Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?"

"As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor."

"Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes."

"Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you."


"There are many exceptions, but New York is a great place to start a career."

"I've just found out there are pages on the internet dedicated to whether I'm gay or not."

"I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit."

"Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality."

"To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation."


"Actually, I've only been involved with one girl I worked with. It was Alyssa Milano. We didn't actually have an onscreen kiss - we're about to but it gets broken up."
Kiss,

"My eyebrows make a more profound impact on other people than they do on me. I just let 'em grow."

"I remember watching Jodie Foster in Contact, and that kind of opened my eyes."

"First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment."

"I had rapidly become aware there were problems with the Kalifa group."

"A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing."

"I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up."

"7th Heaven is quite a hit for them now, and they are hoping to appeal to a very similar audience with our show; skewed slightly older I guess, since it's a 9:00 to 10:00 show."

"My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream."

"The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'"

"If I could be in any band, I think it would have to be the Beatles. That would have been a lot of fun."
Fun,

"The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research."

"It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals."

"Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know why it does."

"I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind."
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