It's part of your job as an actor to put your personal problems behind you and work. Good actors can do that.

David Mamet, Tim Kazurinsky, and Denise DeClue, who adapted [ About Last Night]. Between the three of them... I mean, it's always down to the writing. You're only as good as your writing.

To achieve longevity you will have cycles. No one gets there in one straight shot.

Anybody who doesn't have a scandal I have no interest in meeting because they haven't lived their lives.

Stephen [King], who wrote the script himself, was on the set [of The Stand], and I was just so fortunate to get to know him. What a wonderful man. He may go down in history as the greatest American writer, pound for pound.

I'll be sober ten years and married nine soon.

I was not familiar with the book [before filming in The Outsiders] , though. Interestingly, The Outsiders had not reached the point where it is now, where it's required reading in sixth and seventh grades. In my sixth and seventh grade, we did not, but today everyone does.