"Approaching a part or thinking about taking a part, I never think, 'Is that person like me?'"

"I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter."

"I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it."

"One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with."

"I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you can watch."

"I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter."

"When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial."

"I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing."

"There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor."

"I think of myself as more of a comic person. I don't know about a comic actor."

"I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature."

"I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though."

"One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you."

"For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids."

"You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children."

"Willie Mays was the best ever. When I was in college I once made a catch like the one Mays made over his head. Sometimes when I'm lying in bed at night I think about it. It still makes me warm."

"Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery."

"The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry."

"I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal."

"I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it."

"Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring."

"Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet."

"98% of the people in the world are harmless and wish you well, but it only takes one person who doesn't. That's what you're constantly on guard against."

"Humility is considered an un-masculine quality."

"People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts."

"At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist."

"If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens."

"One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too."

"Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up."

"It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility."

"My whole life, I've wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life."

"I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can't do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do.'"

"I'm not really a gamer."

"I don't like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim in the ocean, and I think much more about sharks than anyone should. I really resent the fact that my oceangoing experiences are ruined by 'Jaws.'"

"In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before."

"I still feel like I haven't grown up."

"I've made so many mistakes. But it is my feeling that you learn from failures, so I welcome them as often as I can."

"People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country."

"I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in."

"I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated."

"I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated."

"I don't mind close-ups, I like them, but they're kind of forceful - you see a lot, you get a lot of information in a close-up. There's less mystery."

"Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within."

"If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know."

"The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born."

"And maybe digression isn't really digression, maybe the shortest distance between two mind points is not a straight line. Chew on that."

"Just like every show has a tone, every show has different people on it playing different games. I don't say 'game' in a pejorative sense, I just mean, these are different stories that we tell ourselves when we go to work."

"I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be, eventually. I was raised in the city, so I don't have that skill set, but my heart is more with the dirt than the concrete. It's an unrequited love with nature - a one-way love affair."

"I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting... I liked the idea of collaboration, and I thought if I'm gonna write plays, I should learn something about speaking the lines that I might try to write."

"I won't look online. The whole fan thing makes me self-conscious, which is not to say I don't appreciate it or understand it. If Mickey Mantle were around, I'm sure I'd have a ton of questions to ask him that might make him uncomfortable. I get it. That doesn't mean it's not really awkward."