"Acting in the theatre is fun; acting in film is work."

"There are women who get divorced in order to punish. Out of this bitter, bitter hatred that some of these women have for their ex-husbands, they turn their children against them."

"The harshest thing I can say is I was married to someone for whom all dissent was abuse. If you had your own opinion, you were abusive."

"John McTiernan, the director, is not Ingmar Bergman. He does action-adventure movies."

"I don't hate Trump, but he's not somebody I admire."

"If I won the lottery tomorrow, I probably would never work again."

"All actors have a significant amount of vanity about work, and necessarily so. Things they will do and won't do, and I've completely lost all of that. I don't care."

"I want my weekends back so I can be with my kids."

"The Trump name is now going to mean something else."

"'The Apprentice' was a huge success, and Trump was a huge television star who managed to trick people into thinking he was the guy from the show."

"I'm not an impressionist, per se, but if you do any kind of comedy - and they ask you to do that, most of the time - there's some degree of appreciation, I think, involving somebody you like."

"Everybody had posters in their room; everybody had the four symbols of Zeppelin on the wall and all that."

"I went to Jimmy Gandolfini's funeral, and when I was there, I realized Jimmy Gandolfini didn't have Twitter."

"My goal was always to take a talk show to the network. I never wanted to be on MSNBC."

"I find myself bitter, defensive, and more misanthropic than I care to admit."

"I think Rachel Maddow is quite good at what she does. I also think she's a phony who doesn't have the same passion for the truth off-camera that she seems to have on the air."

"It's good-bye to public life in the way that you try to communicate with an audience playfully, like we're friends, beyond the work you are actually paid for."

"I'm doing 'Rock of Ages' one day, making out with Russell Brand. Soon after that, I'm advocating with Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Cynthia Nixon for marriage equality."

"Am I a homophobe? Look, I work in show business. I am awash in gay people, as colleagues and as friends."

"Everything I hated about L.A. I'm beginning to crave. L.A. is a place where you live behind a gate, you get in a car, your interaction with the public is minimal. I used to hate that."

"I need to be home more. That's the goal now. I have a steady flow of things people want me to do."

"I worked all the time. Every moment I wasn't working, I was home with my family. I got divorced. And now I'm doing it all over again, and I've learned that the key is, I've got to work less."

"I want to go make a movie and be very present for that and give it everything I have, and after we're done, then the rest of the time is mine."

"I won every award you could win in television. I got paid well. And people loved '30 Rock'. And I loved '30 Rock'. I mean, sometimes you do a show that's a hit show, and you hate it."

"I loathe and despise the media in a way I did not think possible."

"My children are the only thing in my life that makes me happy."

"Everything I do is about my kids and wife and how we can all be together."

"I'm going to stop giving too much money to charity - the charity is going to become my family. I'm only half-kidding."

"There's almost no popular music I listen to now. I'll hear it because it's everywhere... Music is ubiquitous now."

"Being able to stay home with my children is what I prefer."

"I turned popular music on the radio, and I never listened to it again after that, in about 1985. That's when I switched over to classical music, and I pretty much stayed with that since then."

"There are shows that are monolithic successes on TV that nobody in the business ever watches one episode of."

"When you lack a certain vitality in the film business, there's no hiding it. It's like you've had your limb chopped off. How do you hide the fact that you're missing an arm?"

"Hollywood does draw some very strange characters, and then the power of Hollywood and what they can do with it becomes like a blood sport to them."

"Hollywood does draw some very strange characters, and then the power of Hollywood and what they can do with it becomes like a blood sport to them."

"Have I thought about having more kids? Oh sure, that would be great; that would be heaven. That would be fantastic."

"My father would chaperone at high-school dances, and the toughest guy in the high school used to want to fight my father. My father broke his hand on a guy's head once in school."

"On a television show, precise acting isn't the order of the day."

"I'd rather live my life off screen and give only a certain amount of energy to the work."

"You have a lot of optimism when you are young."

"We all have that moment when we think, 'Hand me that Oscar now - you don't even have to have the ceremony'."

"Grown-ups yell. I don't know why, but they do."

"I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!"

"In the film business, when you're young, you just want to work. But when you're older, it has more to do with who's involved with the project - who you're going to get in the boat with."

"I don't want to be throwing the football on the front yard when I'm 75. I mean, I'm not opposed to men doing that. But I don't think it's gonna work for me."

"When you're with someone, you want everything to be great. And that's the pressure that you put on, and what you just can't do."

"I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married."

"I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will."

"I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing."

"When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out."