Whenever I see Tom [ Cavanagh] - we're good friends - we just mourn that we didn't get a longer shot.

It was a hard job, but it was a lot of fun and I'll always be grateful to Ponch. He was a part of me.

It's scary how effective movies can be. It's a very powerful medium that I think is sometimes abused.

I love exploring in a rehearsal room with other actors, scenes and you know, stuff you are scared of.

When you take the R sound out of French accent, and you just replace it with an R, it sounds Mexican.

A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.

They weren't great pictures, but they were fun, and they really represented that period of time well.

The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead.

Looking back at the 'Wonder Years,' I see things I did well, and I see things I did very, very badly.

The performance of a lifetime is the perfect thing to be doing at this age because I can use the age.

The fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous.

I have been really lucky in my career, with the diversity of it. I get to play really complex people.

You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.

When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.

When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.

No, there are some location shoots in Vegas, maybe four trips a year. It's shot in Santa Clarita, CA.

Acting is all about creative ideas and sharing, so the more places those ideas come from, the better.

Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.

I think my whole life has been shaped by my childhood incarceration in America's concentration camps.

For me, listening to my breath in between the lines, allows me to be in deep connection to my spirit.

I'm happy to report that everybody whose face I've wanted to punch on Earth has already been punched.

The Jewish community is all about love and family, which is the most important thing in my life, too.

I have kept a part of Catalina Productions going, through which I develop a few projects just for me.

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

I have phone sessions with my therapist, who is in New York, constantly, just to talk and get it out.

I think when people are repressing things, or burying things, that can manifest in all sorts of ways.

I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script.

I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.

Bryce Canyon isn't as famous as the Grand Canyon, but it is just incredible - nothing compares to it.

Sean Spicer gives press briefings like someone is going through his browser history while he watches.

If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.

You can't control how other people see you or think of you. But you have to be comfortable with that.

As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.

Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.

Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.

Television, for me, is a medium that I'm probably always going to be attached to, one way or another.

Remember Tupperware? That was the toughest stuff ever. Why can't they make a phone out of Tupperware?

I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.

You only have to go hardcore humiliation on the first film. On the subsequent sequels, you can coast.

Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this -- heat is making me absolutely crazy.

I'm certainly not as tough as people think. I'm not a fighter and so forth. I'd just as soon go home.

I don't think I'm as revolutionary as Galileo, but I don't think I'm not as revolutionary as Galileo.

I wish I did something like yoga or Pilates. All the people I know who do it tell me it's incredible.

I was raised thinking I'd burn in hell for being gay, but I didn't have a choice. It's just who I am.

I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year.

You say I sucked at the Oscars. I was a genius at the Oscars. That was experimental tuxedo sleep art.

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