"I turned popular music on the radio, and I never listened to it again after that, in about 1985. That's when I switched over to classical music, and I pretty much stayed with that since then."

"There are shows that are monolithic successes on TV that nobody in the business ever watches one episode of."

"When you lack a certain vitality in the film business, there's no hiding it. It's like you've had your limb chopped off. How do you hide the fact that you're missing an arm?"

"Hollywood does draw some very strange characters, and then the power of Hollywood and what they can do with it becomes like a blood sport to them."

"Hollywood does draw some very strange characters, and then the power of Hollywood and what they can do with it becomes like a blood sport to them."

"Have I thought about having more kids? Oh sure, that would be great; that would be heaven. That would be fantastic."

"My father would chaperone at high-school dances, and the toughest guy in the high school used to want to fight my father. My father broke his hand on a guy's head once in school."

"On a television show, precise acting isn't the order of the day."

"I'd rather live my life off screen and give only a certain amount of energy to the work."

"You have a lot of optimism when you are young."

"We all have that moment when we think, 'Hand me that Oscar now - you don't even have to have the ceremony'."

"Grown-ups yell. I don't know why, but they do."

"I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!"

"In the film business, when you're young, you just want to work. But when you're older, it has more to do with who's involved with the project - who you're going to get in the boat with."

"I don't want to be throwing the football on the front yard when I'm 75. I mean, I'm not opposed to men doing that. But I don't think it's gonna work for me."

"When you're with someone, you want everything to be great. And that's the pressure that you put on, and what you just can't do."

"I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married."

"I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will."

"I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing."

"When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out."

"Ultraconservatism is, to me, so illogical. Everywhere you go, conservatives want to cut, cut, cut, cut - cut money for powerless people. So, that's the biggest problem I have with them."

"Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with."

"I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation."

"I don't think acting is addictive. If I stopped acting tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. If you told me that I would have to sell real estate in New York City to look after my family, that would be fine with me."

"I don't need to be married to Georgia O'Keeffe or Lillian Hellman, but I like being with a woman I can look up to."

"I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked."

"I'm a pretty loyal person."

"When I'm not working, I dress like a surfer. I look like I'm going to come into your house and clean your pool."

"For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally."

"In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different."

"I'd do anything to have more kids. But that's probably not gonna happen now."

"When I get onstage in a play, I feel very safe, very protected, very fulfilled."

"I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie."

"I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting."

"Doing these parts is not fun. It's challenging, but no fun. It's creepy. I would rather play the guy that throws the touchdown pass and gets carried off the field."

"To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough."

"Down with Dukes of Hazzard!"

"Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately."

"There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time."

"I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm not necessarily going to leave the United States."

"Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy."

"Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines."

"You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later."

"I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue."

"I think about how much I used to work and how much I used to make that the priority."

"I just can't live in New York anymore."

"I have my older daughter Ireland and my wife Hilaria, and I have Carmen and Rafael."

"The wealthy don't have any sense of humor. It's not like the English, where the theater is perhaps the one place where they have a sense of humor about themselves."

"I'm the kind of person who does not want to be anywhere that I'm not wanted."

"I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now. You have to go through this to understand."