The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality.

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.

The theater business is very much about "Hey, if you want our big blockbuster at Christmas time, you'll play our piece of crap in April."

If you're going to do something that lasts 90 minutes, you can't really do it with stick figures.

I happened upon a memoir by a midlevel White House staffer, and he had been in the room that [Nixon's last] night [in office]. This guy's memoir told me what Nixon's last words were. And they were, on August 8, 1974, to the crew: "Have a Merry Christmas, fellas!" That was just so bizarre.

I was never into candy and games and clowns.

My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood.