I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character.

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me.

I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

Vince or Brad or Benicio would say, Maybe we should try this, and Guy was open to changes.

I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.

You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.

This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason.

The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.

As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids.

I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character.

I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.

The cast was huge, but I never saw anybody.

You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost.

I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I don't know if I'll ever get to do that. They're awfully hard movies to make.

When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.

Do whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.

This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer.

When they released Sidewalks of New York, there were some shots with the towers they were going to take out, and Ed told them no. I don't think they can deny the towers were a part of New York.

I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.

I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.

I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled.

Usually you're in movies with a lot of dissolves and things, but this was kind of quick, more jarring than usual. I thought it would be fun to be in a movie that's unconventional. Then I met Guy and I liked him. I think he's a good man.

Acting is a work in progress for me. I just try to keep my mouth shut and my eyes and ears open, especially with the people I've worked with.

Am I a good actor? I don't think about it. But I'm working on it.

Car chases usually don't involve major criminals - they're usually guys afraid of getting another traffic ticket.

Change never bothers me, not really.

Chicago's always a friendly place to me.

For some reason or another, 'Richard Diamond, Private Eye,' still sticks out in my mind. I don't think I particularly liked that show, but for some reason, he sticks in my mind.

I didn't fall for a lot of that stardom stuff.

I don't need to see the old school to remember it and the teachers there. They changed the way that I've always looked at life and learning.

I even played a part in 'Miami Vice.'

I had seen 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' and I thought that was a different kind of film than I'd seen before, with that kind of editing and slick camera movements.

I have - and you gotta believe this - hardly ever met anybody in Hollywood who's not nice. There are some people I don't like, but everybody has been very nice.

I have no message or answers to social questions.

I just think 'Law & Order' is the gold standard. History is going to show that it's probably one of the best series of shows that has been on television.

I like being in the '60s.

I loved 'Buddy Faro.' I loved the whole idea.

I never jumped into anything, and I never liked being cajoled into anything. I've pretty much always done things because I wanted to do them.

I realize that no one is going to come to me and ask me to be Julius Caesar or a romantic lead, but I think I'm a certain type of guy who looks a certain way, and that's just the reality of things.

I really don't think there's such a thing as an ex-policeman.

I think my high-school acting career lasted a day.

I think there is something very nice about going to work to try to make people laugh.

I try to bring my own style to a role, but I can't change how people think of me.

I was a policeman for 18 years.