I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.

We thought sex was free. Sex is not free. There's a price to be paid emotionally, physically, even legally. Sex isn't a casual thing. It's a huge thing.

I think I've been in situations where they looked at me and just see some rich white guy - they don't see me at all.

I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it.

I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.

There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should.

The bar raises as you go.

I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing.

That red carpet has to be felt to be believed.

Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care.

I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.

I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.

When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.

We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.

Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter.

We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love.

I'm not against watching myself, but I miss a lot of it. I've got two little kids who we don't let watch TV.

Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.

Everyone hooks up with George Clooney. He's a genuinely cool guy. He's using his powers for good.

When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.

The only people who do plays in LA are people who can't get jobs in TV shows.

I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams.

A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife.

Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.

It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.

When Fargo came out, I hired a publicist for the first time in my life. I thought, if ever I was going to make it, that was then.

Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.

I do them all for the money, I really do.

I have a tendency to say yes to a script or no to a script. Not yes based on a rewrite.

The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night.

I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies.

Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.

If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.

Shameless is a rough show, and it's not for everyone, but it's also beautiful.

It's hard to be depressed around a ukulele. You just pick it up and you're halfway home.

Rise up ... take courage and do it.

No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.

I actually struggled through teaching myself to cook because I'm completely ignorant in the kitchen. So I did really macho things like trying to make my own curry. Really hardcore stuff.

Feed the musician, and he's out of tune.

Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga.

In summer 1961, Rose-Marie Egger became my wife, and her stabilizing influence has kept me on an even keel ever since. Our honeymoon trip led us to the United States where I spent two post-doc years working on thermal conductivity of type-II superconductors and metals in the group of Professor Bernie Serin at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette.

Appear as you are, be as you appear.

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

We have to replace our focus on personalities with a focus on ideas so that the opinionated and self-serving pronouncements and forms of cyber-bullying are replaced by thoughtful dialogue and open-minded conversation.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.

Fatherhood, both times for me, was a choice.