In rock and roll, homosexuality was accepted, but it was less cool to say it.

The people that were most interesting were always questioning the status quo.

I'm not a natural-born actor. So it's been a very slow learning curve for me.

My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty.

I love the uilleann pipes and listen to Ronan Browne who's an uilleann piper.

I've always loved where my dad came from and the ideals that instilled in me.

Truly, when I say the show has given me everything, it's given me everything.

The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive.

Books make great gifts because they're something you love that you can share.

I was on the Harvard board of overseers for six years, between 1989 and 1995.

If I had a bloody tattoo for every film I'd done, I'd be a walking billboard.

When I see these guys write all this macho stuff I want to smash their heads.

It's an odd thing when there is a fan page for my daughter who is not yet 13.

There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy.

The weirdest thing in the world is to see some guy who is just super earnest.

With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.

I found popularity through self-destruction, and that can be quite addictive.

I didn't necessarily set out to think of a show to make fun of reality shows.

For most people, the authentic things are relationships, friends, and family.

Just tell them that their wildest dreams will come true if they vote for you.

Ultimately, we're actors: I'm putting on a costume, so we're playing pretend.

I've been fortunate that my career has developed through on-the-job training.

I'm part of the Ipod generation. I got 10,000 tracks from all over the world.

I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.

I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

If you know which way the current is going, you can use it to your advantage.

You see a woman on a screen and you reduce her to just a thing, a sex object.

I don't know whether I much enjoyed education. I was not academically gifted.

We're trying keep 'The Originals' in the same world as 'The Vampire Diaries.'

I think those little laundry detergent capsules are an amazing thing to have.

I knew that I wanted to meet girls, so I joined a fraternity, and I did yoga.

Being in love also means learning not to say anything until she's had coffee.

It's great to work with people that you like, any job, no matter what you do.

Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life.

When the sexual energy of the people is liberated they will break the chains.

There is almost nothing in your house that does not tell something about you.

My first lead role was a stage play called 'A Kestrel for a Knave'. I was 11.

I loved 'Junebug.' It was one of my favorite films, my favorite type of film.

Multi-culture is the real culture of the world - the pure race doesn’t exist.

Without history we are nothing, so it's worth finding out something about it.

An actor has power, and their power is very simple: it's the power to say no.

Certainly, I'm excited by epic subjects. It doesn't particularly frighten me.

I was in the first 'Friday The 13th,' and that was a microbudget horror film.

If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.

If it's fifty years from now and it still has the same value, that's a movie.

It seems like all the sitcoms on now, the families are kind of dysfunctional.

I play a lot of sports. I'm not real good at any of them. I'm above adequate.

You learn every single day when youre running a company. You learn as you go.

And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private.

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