I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.
A lot of people just ask me about how I can do small budgets and big budgets, but many actors do both. I think the more self-destructive impulse I have is doing so many different characters.
You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can't design.
I think 'Eastbound & Down' is one of the great television shows, ever.
I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn't, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don't think any of my relatives are surprised.
I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.
I look back on our productivity in the 'Mr. Show' days, and think, 'We probably could have worked harder.'
Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live.
I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.
I didn't think I'd even know a president of the United States, let alone work in the White House. Even though my parents always said you can do whatever you want to do, I never dreamed of this kind of an opportunity.
I think we need to recognize that learning is a lifelong goal, a lifelong experience.
I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.
I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.
What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's roles have gotten ghettoized in these sort of places... I'm thinking women in action, comic books, or like the Tony Soprano of women. We need some complex roles.
I think that a lot of these cops have been put in very difficult situations and tasked with very difficult jobs with very little training and very little help.
We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're quite clever. I've seen them pick people apart.
A 10-year-old knows a lot. If you think she or he isn't noticing the world around them, you're missing a lot.
Lyrically and thematically, the title 'Doctor Faith', that song is about therapy, psychotherapy, and that song is about emotions and personal insight. I think all the songs on the record sort of go along with that.
I play football like chess. You have to think a lot and anticipate what could happen after you make your move.
I'm excited about Los Angeles because I believe in her. I believe in her destiny. I think that the fact that we have so many different people from so many parts of the world is a big reason why L.A. is the city of America's promise.
I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.
I think we're all a lot more like our parents than we want to admit.
I find with television, you have to play personality, whereas onstage, everyone talks about 'the character,' and what you do. It's a very different thing, because stage is much bigger, but on television, for things to come across to the public, I think you have to play a bit of your personality.
Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.
I played Chang here under the lights here. I think that was '91. Another good match. I've played a lot more good matches under the lights than I played bad. You tend to remember some of the bad ones unfortunately.
I think good-looking people seldom make good television. And American television studios almost concede before they start: 'Well, it won't be good, but at least it'll be good-looking. We'll have nice-looking girls in tight shirts with F.B.I. badges and fit-looking guys with lots of hair gel vaulting over things.'
I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.
I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's why people are doing too many revivals, that's why there's a plethora of rock musicals. There's room for everything, but not room for too much of anything.
I use those medical gloves that fit very tightly and are disposable for all chopping - peppers, onions, garlic, etc. Very Lady Macbeth, I think.
I think it's important to surrender to situations that take you out of your comfort zone.
I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.
When you create those characters that people love and care about and put them in a dark hallway, already the audience is on edge, and they feel empathy for that character. Then it's up to me to decide what jumps out in that hallway. So I think laying that foundation of strong characters and strong story is the most important thing in a horror film.
I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!
I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.
I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.
