I don't think anybody chooses to be an underdog.

Directing takes a good chunk of your life out. It's a very hard thing. As an actor, you go in for a couple of months and do your job, and then you move onto another one. As a director, it's with you for quite some time and you're responsible for the entire thing, whether the results are good or bad, or whether people throw darts at you or put you on a pedestal.

If you're going to take care of your kids and pay for your house and do something good for adults, you have to do something on television now.

I know that I loved music before I loved movies, simply because I didn't see movies as a kid.

I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.

I always wanted to play a lawyer.

I quit flying years ago. I don't want to die with tourists.