“Your job as an actor is to stay employed.”

I count it as a major victory to not only be on a series that’s had a full season run, but to actually be on one that’s gotten picked up for a second season.

I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I’m going to have more kids.

Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do – honesty but subtlety.

I’ve been in scenarios as an actor where you have to manufacture an emotion that’s not really there, but it wasn’t hard with Halle because she’s a great person and very beautiful, so it ain’t a tough job at the end of the day.

No matter what your native tongue is, no matter what part of the world you’re from, if your native tongue is distorted with an accent, somehow that’s always funny.

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don’t get to do in real life.

As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I’m not working, you’d better spend that time with someone important.

I think all actors are on the constant search for a real challenge just to keep things interesting.

My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.

There is no length that is too great to go to in order to protect your child.

She and I had come close to working on two other films together prior to this one that unfortunately had fallen apart for various reasons.

I find that most of us actors can’t stand ourselves in any form.

Film and television essentially feel the same when you’re doing it, because it’s the same technical approach.

Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it’s romantic.

I have no particular career agenda.

I don’t really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don’t have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

Acting, music, painting… it’s very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all.

More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor’s Orphanage – he shot both his parents and moved in.

Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies.

I’m an actor. I’ve always been an actor. I’ve always approached all my comedy as an actor. I don’t really care about jokes either. I tire of jokes.

Colloquialism is the toughest part of what we do, as foreign actors, because there are certain sayings that you guys have that absolutely don’t make any sense.

It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.

If you ask any actor “What single thing would make you really, really happy?” Among the top five things they’d say is not having to audition anymore.