If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.

I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.

That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.

If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.

I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.

We're paid to care. That's what actors get their money for. But the main goal is not for the actors to be frustrated at the end of the show, but for the audience to be throwing their shoes at the television set. That's what we're trying for.

Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.