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" You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table. "

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" Sometimes I look back and think, 'Good. I'd love to go in and bang out a good episode of 'Talk Soup' today.' "

" I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all. "

" In my sophomore year, a kid told me that the secret to getting women is to play really, really hard to get. I followed his advice, and I didn't have so much as a date that year. "

" Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find. "

" I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars. "

" Cat lovers turn into cat collectors. "

" Ultimately, I'm not so sure that, as a person, I'm all that interesting. "

" I was always explaining why my term papers were never on time. I think that's where I got my acting training! "

" I have a very well organized closet. "

" I like the classics! "

" I was a halfback on an American football team in Athens, Greece - the Kississia Colts - where I went to high school, and we took the Cup my senior year. The downside, and somewhat unfortunate piece of information I have to pass on, is there were only two teams in the league because of the limited amount of Americans. "

" I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again. "

" The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive. "

" There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting. "

" Well, I don't know what image people have of me. "

" Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation. "

" I'm happy to report that everybody whose face I've wanted to punch on Earth has already been punched. "

" I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long. "

" When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready! "

" We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations. I think that's part of the human condition. "

" Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken. "

" Everybody's family has problems. "

" There's times when I'll see a show, or something cooking on TV, and think, 'That can really be fun when it's working.' But it's a grind. I did that at NBC, it was five days a week. I was doing 'Talk Soup' and 'Later' at the same time. It's a hard job, more difficult than people realize. "

" We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual. "

" It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story. "

" My grandfather had two boys, my uncle had three boys, my dad had me and my two brothers, each of my brothers have had two boys. Then something happened with the chromosomal experiment and suddenly I've got three girls. "

" I like complicated characters. "

" Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too. "

" I find fear is a great motivator to work hard. "