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In high school and college, I was an athlete.

It's hard to leave anywhere. Even if the place sucked. It's hard to leave anywhere at all.

'Alien' is a great movie. So is 'Close Encounters.' But I'm not the guy who goes out to the science-fiction festival. '2001's good.

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

It's rare in movies or even in life where somebody owns up to their needs. I guess in a relationship it's the only way it has a chance to survive it.

I feel like I came to acting late in a way.

It seems unlikely that we're alone in the universe. But I'm pretty sure nobody's hiding any contact.

I don't make decisions based on money.

I think of myself as more of a comic person. I don't know about a comic actor.

Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.

Dogs are the broccaflower of the animal kingdom.

I drive an electric car.

I love animals and I love working with them because they don't lie.

There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience.

I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me.

There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.

If I were gay, you know. I think Woody Allen is one of a long list of men I might go gay for

In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive.

I don't mind close-ups, I like them, but they're kind of forceful - you see a lot, you get a lot of information in a close-up. There's less mystery.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

I'm not going to give up. I can't give up. Not as long as the truth is out there.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

Humility is considered an un-masculine quality.

I think Polanski's an amazing director.

You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view.

I'm very proud of my Scottish blood.

I poop in the backyard ... I wear disposable diapers.

Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.

I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.

I've made so many mistakes. But it is my feeling that you learn from failures, so I welcome them as often as I can.

I wouldn't say we were doing that. I think we probably stopped thinking. Though it took a while to stop thinking.

A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.

Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will.

It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.

I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.

I'm not really a gamer.

I never thought about the actors on television or film, like what kind of life they had.

I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor.

I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you can watch.

I don't discount belief. I just discount most of the things that people believe in.

I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.

I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore.

You can't control your mind. Why would you want to?

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.

Action is pretty boring to do as an actor. Action and sex scenes are silly because it's all faking.

I never, ever, ever cook. And I would never eat anything I might cook.

If Fox Mulder discovered that Larry Sanders was a clone? I think he would stab him ... but it wouldn't be with an ice pick.

Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them.

I don't want to know what happens in any movie that I go to see.

I think people are always trying to demystify whatever acting is, so they want to know what your method is.

Approaching a part or thinking about taking a part, I never think, 'Is that person like me?'

I'm actually thinking about getting back to being a bath tub. I don't think anyone's ever quite segued into that.

I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal.

I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.

There's two things I gotta do. One is, I gotta update my resume. And then, I have to call my mother.

Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.

You do hear some strange rumours floating around. One I've heard is that I'm allergic to metal.

I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature.

I love the Lower East Side.

I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

I'm kind of stupid when it comes to gadgets.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.

When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial.

If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.

When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.

I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.

As names that can mean things, I prefer spiritual to a lot of other things.

I think we all choose our style from the ether and whatever is out there.

You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail.

People are really much more respectful than they're made out to be and much more discerning about the fact that I'm not the character I play.

I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.

Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice.

I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.

Go to bed, Ted."

"Okay."

"Wake up angry.

Patrick Stewart was the first internet sex symbol without hair but pileggi always thought it was him.

Our human nature is exactly the same as it was 500 years ago, let alone five years ago.

I really enjoy taking an outdoor shower.

I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it.

It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.

I don't like watching people work if they're making art.

A bath tub, apparently, was the first thing I wanted to be.

Everybody gets the tattoo they deserve.

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

Usually, when I act, I try to forget the words and let them come, and just find my way through them.

Ted's old single bed had weird dreams in it.

I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character.

TV directors just aren't sexy for some reason, Although, you know, Rob and Kim [Manners] are very sexy in my eyes.

The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.

You, me, the animals in the wild, the animal at your feet, the animal on your plate, the person next to you - We are all one We are all holy cows Moo

I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels.

I'm turning into a stricter dad.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.