I was initially a leading man, but only on television.

I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.

I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.

When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.

I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.

You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.

Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.

I was initially a leading man, but only on television.

I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.

I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.

I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.

I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.

Yes, I've already done a couple of guest voices.

If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.

I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.

By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.

Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.

I met Kevin when I was 19, at a Second City workshop. We were paired up together in the first class I went to. By the end of the class we formed our improv group, and over the next three years we performed leading up to the formation of The Kids in the Hall.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man.

It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.

I'd love to talk to Joaquin Phoenix because he's a very private guy. Also, he's creating a new kind of sexy leading man. To me, his face is new and might be legendary someday.

While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty.

Now, when we face a problem like global warming, and you understand that the biggest impacts on global warming come from business and industry, I think business needs to take a leading role.

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Well, let's say we acknowledged the School of French Painting - the Paris School of painting as the leading force and vitality of the time. I think that was understood and felt and experienced.

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.

Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect, leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait.

I shouldn't say I'm looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don't know what normal is.

We're doing a lot of inspection on the leading edge of our wing on 114 and 121, the first two flights.

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

The World War broke out with such elemental violence, and with such resort to all means for leading or misleading public opinion, that no time was available for reflection and consideration.