"My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me."

"John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy."

"I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make it in this business, you have to have a kind of dumb sense that you're really good. You have to believe that someone is going to recognize that."

"In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible."

"You don't want to be too cool. But you don't want to be too dorky. Still, I find it so much better to see a guy at a club being a dork, and having fun, than trying to be sexy."

"The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life."

"Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it."

"Wisdom principle 33 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 92."