I'm satisfied to go in at the bottom - that's the best way to learn what things are all about.

I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books, or was a horror buff.

I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year

I love people who just started making movies - first-timers, second-timers. They take chances.

Larry Drake - I love his work... He plays a very disabled character like the role I'm playing.

I think the 'Jaws' shark and the 'Shark Night' shark would fall in love and make sweet babies.

I can’t see myself pursuing acting strictly outside of what I’m contractually obligated to do.

I've actually tried to give Brett Ratner dance lessons, but he thinks he already knows how to.

I don't consider myself an action hero, at all. My domestic life is the same as anyone else's.

Sometimes the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people have got to have their faith rewarded.

How do I feel about being a star now? Well I still try to live life and enjoy what I am doing.

Raising children changes everything. It's a complete cliché to say that, but it's really true.

I love Chicago. It is my new favorite city. It is the perfect place to do any kind of theater.

I enjoy playing other people. It's a great job and it's challenging. I couldn't do a desk job.

I've been in the industry from the age of 9, so I have an agent. That's how you get auditions.

Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.

Now as far as the organization selling drugs, no. Individuals selling drugs is something else.

Directors have been trying to get me to do comedy for a long time, ever since One Eight Seven.

Everybody is looking for a reason to not to take responsibility for their own actions in hand.

That's one of the actor's secrets: With everything you do, learn something new about yourself.

I'm past doing one chin-up more than I did the day before. I just kind of do what I feel like.

The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach.

I always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm making.

Montauk is a little more raw and rugged than the other parts of the Hamptons, and I like that.

I'm quite shy. Really. I'm trying to expand myself as a person more, get involved with people.

The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.

I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less.

You can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama.

I don't have to hide or be somebody I'm not. I don't have to compromise. I can just be myself.

To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task.

Why should a filmmaker turn over the irreplaceable asset, the movie, to a distribution center?

I think I am staying in Toronto. It keeps me grounded and I can be with my family and friends.

Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'

The one thing that disturbs me about Alec is that people don't realize that he's really funny.

We can overcome if we change the way we see, see ourselves, see our past, see our possibility.

He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.

The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.

There are people whose work I greatly admire who just don't write to my experience in any way.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

I met Elijah Wood once, I met Peter Jackson, I met Orlando Bloom, and they're all really cool.

Some people are asking me questions like this is a more shocking subject, which is so strange.

There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.

And well historically it's never been a good thing to compare yourself to biblical characters.

Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society.

I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.

Broadway is not just the song and the shows; it's the individual performers and the community.

Yeah, there has been alot of changes in my life since I started glee...I bought a new sweater.

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. Ive got no plans to stop doing it.

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