Somebody's gotta stand up and say pubic hair is good, murder is bad. Sex is good, violence is bad.

Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.

I've got two little girls, I'm not scared about sex. I'll teach them, it's not going to kill them. But what could kill them is violence. Guns, drinking and driving, these are the real dangers in our society.

I really love hanging out on the set, and I love the life, and all of that. But I don't think I could stick with this profession if it weren't for those 15 minutes a day when I get to act. That's the part I love. For some strange reason, it's the time that I'm the least self-conscious in my whole life.

It's hard on an actor when you have to do a scene 45 times and you know damn well that three of the angles a director is shooting will never make it into the movie.

It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know.

I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing.