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'Portlandia' is the most fun show. When I get a breakdown of what the arc of the story is going to be, I could never in my wildest dreams anticipate the direction.

I never felt that my life was not complete without a child. I don't know if that, as a younger man, I'd have had full appreciation for it.

When I'm in a foreign city, I like to get to know it like a local.

The way 'Showgirls' was presented to me, it sounded like an interesting project, and it kind of just went off the rails as we were doing it.

The film world is a crazy place to be. You sit around all day waiting for the phone to ring. Are people talking about you or aren't they?

I really fight for my privacy.

To quote Agent Cooper, 'I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.'

Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you're wearing on the character you're playing

The nice thing about New York is that you're finally able to wear those winter clothes that have been sitting in your closet in mothballs

The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London

I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wouldn't make it past the censors in the States

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer

I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession

Hollywood is not good when it comes to age

I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me

I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul

My workout is my meditation.