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" When I got sober, that was 1990. "

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" The minute you start making calculations about what people will think of you as a person based on your work as an actor, you're on the road to becoming a bad one. "

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" I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved. "

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" The president of the United States can't even fire his chef. I'm not kidding. "

" I'm what you would call an 'independent moderate.' "

" Here's my theory: If a person gets worldwide fame at a young age, they're emotionally frozen at that moment. For me, that's 15 to 18, so you find yourself in your mid-20s being a glorified 15-year-old. What could possibly go wrong? "

" 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. "

" If you're telling a story, and somebody is going to come out badly, it better be you. "

" There is a movie called 'My Dog Skip,' starring my 'Outsiders' costar Diane Lane. I do not recommend it. If you have a child, particularly one about to leave home, watching this film is to be emotionally waterboarded. "

" 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. "

" I was smart and married somebody who could do for me what I couldn't do for myself. "

" I was a child of the '80s. "

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" In my bachelor days, the priority wasn't learning to cook. "

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" What's gratifying about West Wing is that everybody told us that it couldn't be done - that the man or woman on the street didn't care about politics. But if you set things up correctly, people don't have a problem with it. "

" Malibu was a wellspring of counterculture group think. "

" I've said before that the common perception that all good actors should be good liars is exactly the opposite; only bad actors lie when they act. "

" I'm a sportsman, you know, and I shoot skeet, and I grew up in the Midwest, so that's a part of my culture. "

" My dad is an attorney. I've always been interested in it. My sons are probably going to law school. "

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

" I made a conscious effort to focus on television so I could stay in Los Angeles, so I wasn't on a location all over the world doing movies. "

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

" The first shooter video game stuff which - look, admittedly, I missed that generationally, so it's not a thing for me. I've never played them. I don't really get it. My kids do. "

" Before you could actually have face-lifts, they would pull your skin around the back of your head with rubber bands, where they would tape it. And then you'd have to wear a wig over it to hide the rubber bands. It was not the most comfortable. "

" I signed up for 'Brothers & Sisters' because I think it's a really great show. I like my character, and I'm really interested in what he has to do every day - and this cast is so spectacular. I really wanted to work with this particular group of people. "