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" Great writing makes great television. "

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" I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell. "

" I wasn't going off to New York to be more famous than my father, but in retrospect, that certainly was driving me. He was famous in Philadelphia, but it was also really important to him to be famous. And to a certain extent, I got some of that, even though there were parts of it that horrified me. "

" I started working in the mid-to-late Seventies, when television was not what it is now. "

" I wanted to do something heroic if I was going to be on TV. And the first thing that appeals to me once I have decided I don't want to be the bad guy is to find things that are not black and white. "

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" Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him. "

" I always have a suitcase ready to go. My wife and I are both very much like this. We're both vagabonds, and we have been since the time we were married. "

" If I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me and treats me like everyone else, I'm not used to it. "

" I'm a vagabond. I have a suitcase that is ready to go at a moment's notice. The thought of being in one place for a long time, or playing one character for a long time, is terrifying for me. "

" With 'Transparent'. When Amazon put 'Transparent' up, along with 'Bosch' and a few other things, I watched them, and I thought it was an interesting exercise. I didn't comment on them, but I was like, 'Okay, this is kind of cool.' "

" Keep doing what you're doing. Don't be afraid of fame. "

" If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave. "

" I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you and putting make-up on you and telling you when to wake up and when to go to sleep, holding your hand to cross the street. I can do it up to a certain point, and then I start to feel like a puppet. "

" My family survived losing money to Bernie Madoff incredibly well compared to others. "

" I was in the first 'Friday The 13th,' and that was a microbudget horror film. "

" I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies. "

" I have a natural swagger. "

" When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song. "

" There is this idea that your social media platform is the secret to success, but no one has quite proven that to be true, if you ask me. "

" There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren't any more qualified than the average man on the street. "

" To me, the struggle is to try to make a less-well-written or less-well-rounded character and find who they are. If you really get it, and it's all on the page, then it's really just gonna pop out at you. "

" From the time I signed on to 'The Following,' things have already vastly changed in the entertainment world in general. It's an adjustment for me. "

" If you look at my movie career, I do switch it up a lot. I'm always looking for a lot of different parts. It's been a while since I've been in a situation that was romantic. "

" I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though. "

" I have fond memories of Chris Penn, who's sadly not with us. He always made me laugh - it was great to be with him. "

" Whether it's my age or my misspent youth, sometimes I forget whether I've worked with somebody or not. "

" The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie. "

" The whole industry is changing because so many people watch things on DVR, and they watch things on other platforms, and I think everybody is kind of scratching their heads about how this is going to play out. "

" I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance. "