"Ultraconservatism is, to me, so illogical. Everywhere you go, conservatives want to cut, cut, cut, cut - cut money for powerless people. So, that's the biggest problem I have with them."

"Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with."

"I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation."

"I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would have to sell real estate in New York City to look after my family, that would be fine with me."

"I don't need to be married to Georgia O'Keeffe or Lillian Hellman, but I like being with a woman I can look up to."

"I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked."

"I'm a pretty loyal person."

"When I'm not working, I dress like a surfer. I look like I'm going to come into your house and clean your pool."

"For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally."

"In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different."

"I'd do anything to have more kids. But that's probably not gonna happen now."

"When I get onstage in a play, I feel very safe, very protected, very fulfilled."

"I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie."

"I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting."

"Doing these parts is not fun. It's challenging, but no fun. It's creepy. I would rather play the guy that throws the touchdown pass and gets carried off the field."

"To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough."

"Down with Dukes of Hazzard!"

"Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately."

"There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time."

"I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm not necessarily going to leave the United States."

"Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy."

"Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines."

"You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later."

"I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue."

"I think about how much I used to work and how much I used to make that the priority."

"I just can't live in New York anymore."

"I have my older daughter Ireland and my wife Hilaria, and I have Carmen and Rafael."

"The wealthy don't have any sense of humor. It's not like the English, where the theater is perhaps the one place where they have a sense of humor about themselves."

"I'm the kind of person who does not want to be anywhere that I'm not wanted."

"I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now. You have to go through this to understand."

"My wife is the greatest person I have ever known. She is just a living doll; she is great person and a great mom. We have a girl and a boy, and we are going to have another boy."

"Getting older is hard."

"Nobody cares about your autograph. There are cameras everywhere, and there are media outlets for them to 'file their story'."

"Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly."

"I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing. We had to amuse ourselves, so we had to become amusing."

"The campaign finance scandal in America is the global warming of American political life - with cash substituting for deadly solar radiation."

"Some days you're the kid with the stick, some days you're the pinata."

"I don't try to communicate with my 'audience'. I don't bother with that any more. I used to try to have conversations with people, but it's futile."

"Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful."

"There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap."

"My whole life is classical now. Except my wife. I don't have a classical wife. I have a classy wife, but I don't have a classical wife."

"There's a way I could have done things differently. I know that. If I offended anyone along the way, I do apologize."

"Twitter and Tumblr and Vine and Instagram and Facebook and Myspace, all these things are social media tools that we were all told we had to have, and what we're realizing is that, no you don't! No you don't."

"I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you."

"I hope people will learn more about agriculture in America. About locally grown farming and about water conservation. About how much pollution results from beef and pig farming."

"Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie."

"Manhattan is like Beverly Hills. And the soul of New York has moved to Brooklyn, where everything new and exciting seems to be."

"There's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity. You've got to bring those three things to a leading man's role: masculinity, sensitivity, intelligence. In some people, there's a little too much in the mix of one or the other."

"I collect travel alarm clocks. I was in a flea market in France once, in 1994, and I opened up this beautiful Jaeger-LeCoultre folding eight-day winding clock folded into a beautiful case, and I went, 'Wow, man.' And I've been collecting travel alarm clocks since 1994."

"I started out as an actor, where you seek to understand yourself using the words of great writers and collaborating with other creative people. Then I slid into show business, where you seek only an audience's approval whether you deserve it or not."