I really am a character actor, in my heart of hearts, because I really do like developing characters and painting a past for them..

Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, an….

I mean, I always think when you're an actor you have to be the guy running into the burning building rather than running out of it, if you want to ma….

Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion.….

I like the Polanski stuff more than anything else. Rosemary's Baby is still one of my favorite movies of all time. The idea of her being impregnated ….

People behave badly and people are in prison and people are on death row, and there are no excuses for everybody's behavior, but most people are comi….

My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There….

You never want to have a movie be derivative, because that's the worst if you ask me. I always want to be in original material, or an original idea, ….

I'm always trying to pop up in different genres, what interests me. Sometimes I just like to throw myself into new situations to see what it feel lik….

The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans..

I think everything keeps changing. There was a time when television was a bad thing for actors and it meant that you could only do television, and no….

L.A. is still such a fascinating place to me, so big and diverse. It's so spread out that you can go from Zuma to downtown and there's really like 10….

As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always change people's minds. I've known that….

I think the most important thing for an actor is to stay current and stay relevant, and those are probably the hardest things to do..

It's like, no matter what I do, I always feel like I'm five years old, and I end up in the back of my father's car looking out the window, and nothin….

When I'm playing a serial killer, I'm in it. I'm not judging him. I'm not judging his environment. I'm just looking for the why. Why is he the way he….

Everything keeps changing. People want to label things all the time and once you label it, it changes again..

I always felt like I needed to act. Not that I wanted to act, but I needed to. And, I still feel that same way. There's an expression that I get to h….

In the consciousness of the end is the limitation of the moment..

It's hard to find success and it's hard to find hit movies or hit TV shows and to stay relevant. I think it's a very difficult thing for actors, beca….

My past is not pleasant; I grew up in a very tough town, Waterbury, Connecticut. I grew up in New York, too, but Waterbury was tougher..