I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.

I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.

If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.

If anybody had that cure out there like so many people swear to me they do, you'd be two things: you'd be very rich, and you'd be very famous. Otherwise, shut up.

I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.

Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.

I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.