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" Cannes is a little bit like French wine. There are certain years that people prefer over others. "

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" My issue isn't about physical aging; my issue is about wanting to remain vigorous and youthful in my spirit. "

" I like all of John Carpenter's movies. 'The Thing' is my favorite. "

" It's funny what actors take issue with. Some won't do parts where animals are in jeopardy; some won't ever play anyone remotely unlikable - 'Heroes only, please.' Some won't do violence. I have no such qualms. "

" If you treat China like a foe, surely she will become one. "

" Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He's a lawyer, my father's a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one. On so many levels the role just felt right. I fell in love with it as I would a woman. "

" In acting, there's a type of courage you're recognized for all the time. You lose 100 pounds and play a guy with AIDS, and you get rewarded. But, in life, doing what is courageous is quiet, and no one knows about it. Courage is someone making sacrifices for their family or making selfless decisions for what they hope or feel. "

" Individuals usually do a better job than the government. "

" I had met my now wife, Sheryl, and was attempting my first try at monogamy, which was not really in my nature at the time, and I wasn't able to do it. "

" The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma. "

" Let me just say this - sometimes being a trailblazer is highly overrated. "

" I'll never forget one of those things that my father said to me. My father said: 'You know what? We have had so many amazingly positive experiences that we would have never had because you're famous. We can stand to have a couple negatives ones, too.' "

" Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard. "

" I've had years of psychiatry, and I ask about every six months - it's sort of like getting your oil checked - I ask, 'I'm not an actual narcissist, am I?' The learned men of psychiatry assure me that I meet none of the medical criteria. "

" I love anything by Joan Didion. Incidentally, she was one of the local moms when I was growing up in Point Dume. She always reminded me a little bit of my mother, so I feel a great affinity. I love the precision of Didion's writing. There's a construction and a craftsmanship to her sentences that's imbued with so much emotion. "

" When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie. "

" I am still in love with my wife. "

" I've come to really like Twitter. You really do get to see what I'm about, and I like sharing with my fans. "

" Eleven days before 9/11, I was on a plane with the 9/11 hijackers who were carrying out a dry run. "

" I've gotten to believe it's more fun to play politicians than actually be them. "

" I sadly never got to my prom. I was shooting 'The Outsiders.' "

" I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. I've met a lot of dramatic people who were stupid. But I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. "

" As a person navigating the waters of public scrutiny, you are often unable to hold on to personal heroes or villains. Inevitably you will meet your hero, and he may turn out to be less than impressive, while your villain turns out to be the coolest cat you've ever met. "

" My thing is personal freedoms: freedoms for the individual to love whom they want, do with what they want. In fact, I want the government out of almost everything. "

" I try to be authentically who I am. "

" I wish I was a more religious person. I really admire Martin Sheen for his Catholicism. It's such a bedrock. I wish I had that in my life. "

" I've been lucky enough in 'The West Wing' and 'Brothers & Sisters' to talk about the issues that are important to me with none of the awful mud-slinging or public scrutiny you have in politics. "

" Children change you. They really do. "

" Like most guys, I don't come to beauty regimes naturally. I'm dragged kicking and screaming by the best in the world. "

" If I had been on 'Ally McBeal,' I would have been seen coming out of the shower on the first show. "

" When I hear that I realize how quickly time passes and how everybody goes on their journeys and they're always unbelievable and they never go where you think they're going to take you and, quite frankly, it also makes me feel a little old. "