People behave badly and people are in prison and people are on death row, and there are no excuses for everybody's behavior, but most people are coming from abuse.

I really am a character actor, in my heart of hearts, because I really do like developing characters and painting a past for them.

Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything.

Most of the time people are aiming so low on television. They're trying to reach that common denominator, especially on network television.

As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always change people's minds. I've known that for a long time and I've had to do it.

My theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.

I think everything keeps changing. There was a time when television was a bad thing for actors and it meant that you could only do television, and now we see everyone does television.