I think if you get asked to do this, then that's called doing your homework, and I try and do it.

Some people say it's scarier to direct the people you work with; not me, I'm a team guy.

I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done.

I'm just beginning to direct. For all intents and purposes, this is the first time for me.

When I got divorced and moved into an apartment, I started keeping the TV on, just for company.

I like this job - most days I have a chance to make breakfast and take the kids to school or to read 'em a bedtime story. It's almost like a normal life.

How many times have you been on the freeway and had someone fly by you at 100 mph then end up two cars ahead of you at the off ramp? What's the point?

People think what you are doing is real, on a TV show.

I think if you get asked to do this, then that's called doing your homework, and I try and do it.

I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up.

It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.

St. Elsewhere was certainly a great show.

At Chicago Hope they have a technical staff that works real hard to make that O.R. as realistic as possible.

'Let's Get Harry' was where I met Bob Singer and worked with him for the first time, and then 'Reasonable Doubts' was the second time, and there was a thing after that called 'Charlie Grace' that was the third time. I liked working with Bob. A nice man and a good partner.

I don't care who's No. 1 on the call sheet or how big my trailer is. I care about the work. I don't care who gets the laughs. I just care that the laugh comes.

I don't have regret about things I've done that are successful or not successful or what people perceive or don't know or whatever. I just know for me it had to be the right choice at the time. Sometimes that choice is just about getting a job.

I used to hang out in my dad's workshop on weekends. Later, when I was starting out as an actor, I became a roofer and a framer to make money. But what I really enjoyed was the finished work. I like the longevity.

I was raised with the idea of maximum effort: as long as you could look in the mirror and say, 'I gave it everything I had,' it was OK. But if you gave it less, that would disgrace you.

I'm not a big 'me' guy. I'm a 'we' guy. It's the way I was raised.

I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done. I have to be almost frightened by the possibility of taking it on. Over the years, I realise I must enjoy walking that edge; I keep doing it.

If other people think I'm okay looking, that's great, but I don't see it myself. When I look in the mirror, all I see is a bunch of fake teeth and football scars.

When I was in acting classes early on, there were so many people in these classes who were doing great work, and you'd just look at them and say, 'Wow, I hope to someday be like that.' And yet these people never worked. You never saw them.

Its a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.

We can cross the rivers of doubt and discouragement on the bridge of faith even before we get to them.

Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

Let the power of your love change the world, but never let the problems of this world change the beauty of your love.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

You alone are enough.

When I get ready to talk to people I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

Disneyland will always be building and growing and adding new things... new ways of having fun of learning things and sharing the many exciting adventures which may be experienced here in the company of family and friends.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

When I was 16, I really discovered good stuff like Detroit techno or gabba from Holland.

Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and thats not a sideshow. Thats the cutting edge of human intelligence.

I was never pretty enough to be the pretty girl and I was never quirky enough to be the quirky girl. Boys didn't look at me in high school and think I was the pretty girl.

I decide to go direct to Key West... I know the place quite well, and it's near the points in Florida that I wish to visit. I have an idea at present of doing some work but do not know how long that will last.

Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It's a tough job.

You have to take into account it was the cell phone that became what the modern-day concept of a phone call is, and this is a device that's attached to your hip 24/7. Before that there was 'leave a message' and before that there was 'hopefully you're home.'

To somebody like Obama, substantive opposition is not tolerable. The objective is to eliminate all opposition - be it a political party, be it media, or what have you.

The abstract way we think is really grounded in the concrete, bodily world much more than we thought.

A show of daring oft conceals great fear.

I don't believe that you have a work life and a home life. I believe that you have one life, and either it's working or it isn't working.

I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.

When I'm in the car and somebody comes on the radio singing the high notes, I try to sing along.

People and land need healing which is all inclusive - holistic.

I'm lucky enough to say my day job is acting. I cut my teeth as a theater actor and playwright in New York.