Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.
The Brat Pack is timeless.
I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.
In acting, there's a type of courage you're recognized for all the time. You lose 100 pounds and play a guy with AIDS, and you get rewarded. But, in life, doing what is courageous is quiet, and no one knows about it. Courage is someone making sacrifices for their family or making selfless decisions for what they hope or feel.
The Kennedys are our royals.
Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard.
I have had a lot of blessed, interesting things happen to me and have bumped up against some amazing people.
We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.
I'm a true centrist: my beliefs put me in the middle... You know what happens to people who drive in the middle of the road? They get run over.
I've been lucky enough in 'The West Wing' and 'Brothers & Sisters' to talk about the issues that are important to me with none of the awful mud-slinging or public scrutiny you have in politics.
When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie.
My life and the lives of many across the world have been deeply affected by lymphoma.
In my bachelor days, the priority wasn't learning to cook.
Every relationship has its complications.
I only pray when it suits my own needs. I'm not proud about that.
I have never felt at any point in my life, good or bad, any ill will ever from the man or woman on the street.
I never get bored talking about themes dealing with ambition, leadership and what it means to be an American. I love that stuff. I just love it. I've loved it ever since I was on 'The West Wing.'
I don't know what drives me.
I try to be authentically who I am.
I had had some successes in the '90s, always made money, but the truth was I was like a man pushing a boulder up a hill. A huge, heavy, difficult boulder made up of some career mistakes, projects that didn't meet expectations, and twenty years of being a known quantity.
I like the nexus of Bollywood and Hollywood. I'm actually shocked that there isn't more of a meld between our two industries.
I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.
I'm a registered Independent.
David Blum burned a lot of bridges. He burned people early in their careers. He took on the wrong people, though. He's not Hunter Thompson or Tom Wolfe, he's David Blum living in a cheap flat.
I've always written a little bit. I mean, I've written screenplays, and I've doctored my dialogue for years, and I've written speeches - I was a speechwriter on 'The West Wing,' so I like that kind of thing. But I never really thought I'd write a book.
I've said before that the common perception that all good actors should be good liars is exactly the opposite; only bad actors lie when they act.
Look, I owns guns.
Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads can do many things that even the best moms can't, and vice versa.
The first shooter video game stuff which - look, admittedly, I missed that generationally, so it's not a thing for me. I've never played them. I don't really get it. My kids do.
I love London.
My parents did divorce, but my dad has always been present for me and loving me and my mom as well when she was alive.
Marriage is becoming sort of fake. It's almost like a handbag. Everybody wants the newest, greatest and latest. It becomes an event, and it's definitely a status symbol in our society. I'm not saying it shouldn't be; it absolutely should be - but you shouldn't be focusing on that.
Tom Ford, who is my all-time favourite, once said to me, 'Here's the thing about dress shirts, Rob. You need white, and you need black.' 'What about blue,' I asked. He said, 'Have you ever seen Cary Grant in a blue dress shirt?'
To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality.
My thing is personal freedoms: freedoms for the individual to love whom they want, do with what they want. In fact, I want the government out of almost everything.
I couldn't have gotten sober without rehab because I needed the science.