"Once I was in my last year of law school, I started doing plays, as I said, w..."
"Once I was in my last year of law school, I started doing plays, as I said, without taking the bar. And I got hooked. I did a play called 'Marat/Sade', and I never had so much fun in my life."
"Mike Nichols got me my Equity card."
"I've had so many injuries."
"I always say it takes as much preparation and thought to do a small part as a leading part. In some ways, leads are easier because you have the luxury of time to discover the character."
"I love to run. When the weather's bad, I should get on the treadmill in the basement gym of my apartment building, but I lack the motivation."
"I think once you get it in your head, that you're not going to do anything bigger, you just do things that you enjoy, which has always been my ethos anyway."
"I've done 'The Love Boat' twice. I had a great time, but my ego rails against it."
"My music is going to be true. I'm not out to sell records. I'm experiencing something, and it's what I feel."
"I've always been a bit of a self-doubter. I think a lot of actors are."
"No, well, my father's definitely not Christopher Walken."
"Through every moment on stage for the first time, I felt like I was finally right where I belonged."
"I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things."
"My first five or six years in L.A., I was just trying to get two cents together to stay here. Playing Jason Stackhouse on 'True Blood' put me in a position, financially, to make decisions based on creativity, to choose roles based on whether I connected with them. I love the Jason Stackhouse character... But I also love stepping out of his shoes."
"Sometimes I get mad when I think that I only have maybe 40 or 50 more springs in New York. When I miss one, 'cause I'm on location for a film, I wanna go, 'That's it, that just cost me one of my 50!'"
"I'm hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work."
"I like movies that challenge people to recognize different things."
"To me, England is past its sell-by date. It's not the country I grew up in."
"Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels."
"Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality."
"It's a different world now. Guest-starring on a TV show is not some indication that things aren't going right anymore."
"Most boys' first hero is their father. That was definitely true of my dad. He was a proud Irish American and he taught me a lot about ethics and responsibility. He also introduced me to a lot of wonderful folk music."
"TV does not have anything meaty to offer the male actors. It is a female-dominated industry."
"Part of the desire to live in a post-racial world includes the desire not to have to talk about racism, which includes a false perception that if you are talking about race, then you're perpetuating the notion of race. I reject that."
"I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever."
"But did I think it would last more than 13 episodes at the time? No, I didn't think that. I never know."
