I don't get no respect. I called Suicide Prevention. They tried to talk me into it.
I've never done anything comedic. In all the years I've been an actor, I've never delivered one comedic line.
I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.
I respect journalism. I was always very aware of journalism from a very broad point of view, but I'd say my baptism by fire was doing the Donald Margulies play Time Stands Still. That for me was a real education because I spent a lot of time with some incredible journalists, war reporters particularly - Bob Woodruff, Dexter Filkins - people who were very helpful in painting the picture for me and reading the accounts of people and what they experienced, a lot of PTSD.
There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.
Madonna is the most famous woman on the planet and has been for a number of decades.
I just love working. I really enjoy the work, whatever it is.
I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.
It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original - for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did.
This is my moment, this is my chance to make a difference, and you know, I just went for the ball, I attacked it, and I went and got it,. . . I was gonna catch that ball, regardless of what happens.
One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards. . . set by the critic's long-practiced taste and by his conviction that only those innovations will be significant which promote the established direction of advanced art.