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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.
Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon.
I was going to be lynched. I had to go into hiding in the mountains for two weeks.
I think the balance is between what you can get, what you want and what wants you.
I feel like having something that you're passionate about helps to keep you young.
I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point.
There is something pleasurable for an actor to produce something and not be in it.
Coming from a large family makes you feel protected - you have friends and allies.
My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.
If you spend any time with a man, you'll realize that we're all still little boys.
I have a way of just being ice and just cooling situations and making things work.
It's incredible to be young and live here and not have to clean up your dorm room.
Along came a police lieutenant named Columbo, and my life would never be the same.
I'm always an agent or a lawyer or a doctor or a banker. I'm always wearing a tie.
It's been five years worth of planning and negotiating to bring this to a reality.
You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.
I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.
The greatest drawback in making pictures is the fact that film makers have to eat.
Flappers sounds like where waitresses go after they're too old to work at Hooters.
I take a week here. Maybe 10 days there. I never took a longer vacation than that.
I do want to come across something, I do want to feel something and see something.
A man stays alive as long as he is remembered. He is killed only by forgetfulness.
I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman.
I turned Hamlet down because it was going to take up too much of my drinking time.
I know when an actor is giving it his/her all and when they're just phoning it in.
It might be funny when you get hit by a car, but not when you get run over by one.
The problem we have right now in Washington is we don't have the face of a leader.
I've written several pilots that haven't gone, so that's why you haven't seen any.
As an actor, you use the things from yourself that you can apply to the character.
My old man had a philosophy: peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.
I don't want to go all Michael Jackson on you, but I never really had a childhood.
I could deal with this [Pokemon] if I smoked a couple of grams of blacktar heroin.
When you love someone, you want that person to know that she's is your everything.
I don't know [what things are forever]. Friendship. I can think of lots of things.
Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.
I have no regrets, because I've done everything I could to the best of my ability.
I didn’t want the attacks to affect me. I don’t believe you should be led by fear.
Have a strong vision about the story you want to tell and how you want to tell it.
I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor.
I can't go into a bar anywhere without someone starting to play 'the Entertainer'.
The mainstream usually follows trends, it seldom sets them except for a few films.
I'm an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It's like same religion, half the guilt.
You'd think all of these "atypical" somethings would add up to a typical something
I have six siblings but grew up an only child. I was adopted by my aunt and uncle.
Complacency in the presence of miracles is like opening the door to your own tomb.
I had a grandmother who would always encourage me to learn about theater and film.
We'd never do anything tasteless. There's enough to make fun of without offending.