“There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.”

It’s not personal, it’s strictly business

Without coffee something’s missing

It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.

The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.

Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.

I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.

I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,

And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.

Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.

I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.

I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.

I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.

There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.

I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.

If you tell a teammate you’re ready to play as tough as you’re able to, you’d better go out there and do it.

All I do is sit at home and watch Netflix.

I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do – and not only for operating, but for everything.

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat…nor make love for eight hours…

The world doesn’t need more people playing small. It’s time to stop hiding out and start stepping out. It’s time to stop needing and start leading. It’s time to start sharing your gifts instead of hoarding them or pretending they don’t exist. It’s time you started playing the game of life in a “big” way.

After my first year on ‘Gossip Girl,’ everybody said, ‘You’ve got to do a big commercial movie, ride this wave.’

It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.