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“I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.”
“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.”
“Certainly, network television in general relies a little bit too much on keeping people focused and emotional and scared and pushing the envelope by building wall-to-wall music.”
“I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.”
“My kids don't watch my movies. What I want to do is go home and hug my kids, talk to them and engage with them.”
“I was in the first 'Friday The 13th,' and that was a microbudget horror film.”
“A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.”
“Any marriage is hard work. But what I always say is, "Keep the fights clean and the sex dirty.”
“Things could be worse. You remember that, and you go on with your life.”
“With 'Transparent'. When Amazon put 'Transparent' up, along with 'Bosch' and a few other things, I watched them, and I thought it was an interesting exercise. I didn't comment on them, but I was like, 'Okay, this is kind of cool.'”
“The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie.”
“Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.”
“From the time I signed on to 'The Following,' things have already vastly changed in the entertainment world in general. It's an adjustment for me.”
“I started working in the mid-to-late Seventies, when television was not what it is now.”
“In my movie work, if I do one guy, the next guy I do, I want to do something kind of different. Even in terms of genre - it's really great to mix it up a little.”
“When it happened to us and it was all gone overnight, we said, 'We are in this together, we are healthy, our children are healthy and we can work'.”
“Here's the thing - I mean, I don't act for statues. I really don't. The great thing about winning an award is that it creates opportunities.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.”