We like to keep the sexual tension underplayed, especially between the Smoking Man and me. Once we thought he was my father . . . it got more interesting.

Humility is considered an un-masculine quality.

I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature.

We all know people for that length of time and people change. They mature. There is a certain expectation that a fictional character does not change. But you can't go back and play him the same way.

I don't want to know what happens in any movie that I go to see.

Patrick Stewart was the first internet sex symbol without hair but pileggi always thought it was him.

I kind of dread any kind of critical response, just because it's always painful in some way. Even if it's 80 percent good, it's the 20 percent that's bad that you remember - and that's a higher number than I usually get, 80 percent would be amazing.