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" I've always been told I had an old face. So when I was in my 20s, I never got to play a teenager. "

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" I love 'White Christmas.' That's one of my favorites just because I love the music. I love the story, Bing Crosby. It's just one of my all time favorites. And it's hard to have a Christmas without seeing a little bit of Jimmy Stewart and angels running around town. "

" My kids are good athletes and runners. They run in a bunch of sports. "

" Clive Barker is just genius, and he's incredibly gifted in so many different ways. He can write and direct and paint and do all these different things, and he can do them all extremely well. "

" The end of shows are a nightmare for everybody because there is so much pressure to satisfy everyone, which of course you can't do. "

" Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides. "

" The reality of our business is that for every actor who's rolled up his tent and given up and gone home, the next day you hear about some shoe salesman at Macy's who had this audition and now he's Harrison Ford. There's always that carrot out there in our business. "

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" It's a joyful, humbling feeling to be in different places around the planet, and people have seen shows that I'm proud of being a part of, that do have things to say about the human condition, the planet, and who we are and where we've come from, that will sustain. "

" By all standards, except for 'Star Trek' standards, 98 episodes of any television show is a wildly successful run. "

" I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field. "

" If I can avoid looking at myself, I will. I don't care to examine myself or see much of what I do. I never care how I look. "

" I haven't really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space. "

" The movies are about big tent pole movies and big action and effects. "

" For actors, we always feel like there shouldn't be any divide for anybody. The industry is the one that kind of creates the idea that if you're such-and-such an actor, you can't be on the big screen. "

" I like pop, rock n' roll, big band, Broadway - I like all those elements. "

" I've composed a fair amount in my life, and some of them have made it on to the screen, some compositions that I've done, a few. And I like doing that. I had never really considered doing a full-length thing. I've worked with other people creating full-length pieces. "

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" I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion. "

" The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read for a new show. "

" Running for me has always been a great place to get away. It's a great stress reliever for me. It's great if I need to be working on something in my mind, whether it's things I need to be memorizing or thinking about, or I have some presentation coming up. "

" The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age. "

" Liberace was a miracle. You talk about who he was and what he did, and then you look at who he inspired, from Elton John to Cher to Michael Jackson to Bette Midler. There are so many people that came to see him. Elvis was there, watching his shows. "

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" In the fantasy, sci-fi world, the fans are so discerning and they're so tough and they're so intelligent, and they're so critical. "

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" My favorite thing about running is running when it's as hot as it can be, which is a little odd. "