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

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" My father was into fame and leaving his mark. He was a city planner, sort of a genius in that world, the Robert Moses of Philadelphia. He was on the cover of 'Time' once, and I remember going to his office and seeing, like, two hundred copies, which he would hand out to people. "

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

" I did a year of 'Guiding Light', and I was going to be a movie actor or a stage actor, but not a TV actor. That just wasn't going to happen. And obviously, things changed so remarkably. "

" You have to have something in your life that's more important than the work. People don't really like to admit that. They say, 'Oh, my work is my most important thing.' "

" I like to hike and cook. I enjoy furniture and design - not making it, just looking at it. I'm always kind of trying to spread my interests around and try new things. "

" Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent. "

" I'll be honest with you. My kids don't watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they've seen, actually, all the way through. "

" The way I analyze a script, I don't look at how many days I have off. I see how far they're going to push me. That's just the way I am. "

" With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is. "

" 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. "

" It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous. "

" There are two things that create opportunities. One is being involved with something that makes money, and the other is winning awards. And the reason that winning the awards creates the opportunities is because it gives the people who are selling the picture the opportunity to make more money. "

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

" Fame is very much a double-edged sword. "

" Show me an actor who doesn't want to be famous, and I'll show you a liar. Later, you realise that there's more to it than just the acquisition of fame, and money and girls. But that is what drives them and was what drove me, initially. "

" For my wife and I, for so many years, a lot of our identity was based on being Hollywood haters. We were like, 'We're east-coast. We're New Yorkers. This is just a place that we have to come to, but not by choice.' "

" I'm not someone who comes onstage and says, 'I'm rewriting this now.' I don't think it's fair to the writers or the director, or the other actors. "

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

" Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live. "

" I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50. "

" People work so hard, and I want to keep that energy up, and you can spread that if you're the actor. But I'm also not able to turn it on and off like a faucet. A lot of what I'm called upon to play is violent or angry. When I'm messing around with the crew and making jokes, I remember, 'Oh, this is the guy I normally am.' "

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

" We are being choked to death by the amount of plastic that we throw away. It's killing our oceans. It's entering into our bodies in the fish we eat. "

" Being with Kyra is so natural for me; it's the easiest aspect of my life. I know that I don't need a beach or room service to be happy. "

" A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly. "

" I try to show compassion to people I come into contact with and try to put good out, as much good as I can. But that's my life; that's not my work. With my work, my job is to walk in another man's shoes. "

" From an acting standpoint, when I was a kid, I thought I knew everything there was to know. As the years go by, this craft becomes more intensive as I get older. You realize how much more there is to know and to learn, and how much better you can get, if you really work at it. "

" If you take me out of it, I find 'six degrees' to be a beautiful concept that we should try to live by. It's about compassion and responsibility for everyone on the planet. "

" I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about. "