As you get older, stuff starts to wear down. I can't play four basketball games a week anymore. It takes me three days to recover from one. I'm a lit….

Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it and in so do….

My advice to actors? To successful actors, it's, "sock it away," and unsuccessful actors, it's just, "Just keep at it. Don't do it unless you have to….

With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble….

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back t….

The truth is, I'm a character guy. That's how I see myself. I always see the role as being far more interesting and important than I am... not all ac….

What has emerged as I've gotten older is simplifying the characters I play, unless the role calls for something that is arcane or ornate..

Hamlet, that's the only role there is, finally. The only role. After that, you settle down and only do the fun things on stage..

I always have a contract with a character. Even when he's unappealing. The contract is to give him his due. To tell his story. And to keep his secret….

I've always been curious as to why one man jumps out of a fox-hole with a grenade and charges a machine gun nest and his buddy, who sits right there ….

I don't believe that being against the war can be equated with being non-supportive of our troops..

My Hamlet was about as alienated as you can get. Mine was a bitter and lonely prince. Valid, I think, but maybe tough to root for. I think that roman….

My job, professionally, is tapping into stuff. We've all got it. But, I just am fortunate enough that, beyond the age of 11, it's what I do professio….

I don't think there is a role that I did twenty years ago that I couldn't do better now..

Fortitude, determination... in a way they're things that I idealize myself and am curious about..

You can play anyone if you're open enough. It's a form of possession. Each time you work on something, you allow yourself to be possessed by creating….

I'm always reading plays, and when I find something that I really want to do, then I'll make the time to do it..

I am very happy acting, and just have never gone at, or been bitten by the directing bug to the extent where I'm willing to put acting aside. If offe….

I can't imagine a more profoundly exciting experience than I had working on 'Avatar.' And whether I'm ever part of it again, I'll always be very prou….

My philosophy is, 'Show up, shut up, and do your job,' and if you do it to the satisfaction of your director and the public, you're likely to be able….

I have a penchant for playing God's clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to call himself God's clown..