I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

It's a living, breathing thing, acting.

Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.

I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

I'm hardly a saint.

My body of work means nothing to me.

There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a man's change of life.

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

The best kind of kinky sex is to have kinky sex with your wife or husband, the person you love.

Then, for a hot three or four weeks I wanted to be a concert pianist.

There are no taboos in bed, and there shouldn't be any taboos in bed.

I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.

As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself.

Physical qualities don't really matter much.

And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.

I just feel that no matter what comes in a career - and mine has been all over the map - you must stay at the table, pick up the cards you're dealt and play them.

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

I'd always felt a man should marry later in life.

I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.

We do most of what we do out of our sexual energy and our sexual needs.

You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.

There is no right in acting.

But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.

Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me.

However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.

One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.

But I firmly believe that you can't be emotionally free until you are emotionally committed.

But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love.

I always signed autographs when I could and always stayed and chatted with them when I could.

The last few years have been pretty hectic.

Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.

What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.

The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.

It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting.

I have always felt the basis of everything in life is sexual, and I will maintain that to my dying day.

If youre lucky as you get older you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

The reason I went for Jenny Craig is I thought, Maybe I'm not the only one who has stupid reasons for getting fat.

If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.

Here we are trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Someone once described Ken Lewis to me as the most competitive person in the history of the United States, including the Union Army.

You've got to stop whipping a dead horse sometime.