Quotes

Going to the roof of the Empire State Building is pretty amazing for kids.

I think when you're on a network show, it's crazy how different it is... just being on a network show that reaches that many people. It's not like I'm very famous, but seemingly overnight, I would get recognized more, and it was really weird.

You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.

'Rectify' is really good.

And if you get caught up in combing the Internet for what people think of you or how people perceive you, I think that's a slippery slope.

The divorce in my family was really amicable. There were no fireworks. It was all sort of behind the scenes, if you will. None of us kids ever saw any argument.

I never was a caterer, but I did deliver pizzas.

I'm glad that I didn't get a part in 'Scream 2' and become a star in 1995.

I grew up right in Santa Cruz, right across the bay from Monterey. I would go to Monterey all the time.

I was a pretentious teenager, so of course I had, you know, 'Raging Bull' posters and all of that. 'Raging Bull' is not a pretentious movie, but me having the poster was a pretentious action. I even grew a goatee and had a Knicks cap, because I thought I wanted to be like Spike Lee.

Being an actor is just kind of embarrassing.

I love hearing about bad behavior. It's just so funny to me. Especially, grown ups acting like weird, inconsolable babies over really stupid things, to me, is really funny.

I tend to be a little too old to feel guilty about watching anything. Like, I watch 'Survivor' every week.

There's certainly harder things in the world and the country to do than being an actor, but it's a particularly emotionally humiliating thing to do, that you don't really anticipate when you choose to do it. You don't really think that it's going to be quite so soul-crushing at times.

I mean, the acting school I went to, we did have a social experience, but you know, when it's a bunch of actors, it's everyone self-consciously having a social experience rather than just having a social experience.

Every year, you can depend on having at least a couple really exciting Nicole Kidman performances, and that's a rare thing.

I love working with friends; it's my favorite thing to do. I've found over the years that that ends up being the best way to spend my time.

I'm just excited to watch my kids grow up.

Chasing kids on the beach and sleeping is the closest I come to exercising while in Hawaii.

I've learned, over the years, to go after the parts where I feel I can add something.

I have a recurring dream where I'm on the run for a horrible thing I did years and years ago. Like, in the dream... because the thing I did was so long ago that it's just a faint memory in my dream, so I'm sort of remembering it as I'm on the run from the police. And I'm totally guilty of it.

I mean, I love action films, you know, good action films.

No, I don't regret doing anything, and, you know, at the time, 'Monster-in-Law' was... I was so excited to get that part. I got to be in a big movie for a few months. I got work, and everybody on it was really nice, and it was a fun experience.

I was trying to get an audition for 'Walker, Texas Ranger' and they wouldn't see me. And I was crestfallen, because I really needed money. And to be told you're not good enough to be seen by 'Walker, Texas Ranger' is a tough blow.

I can't imagine my wife and I ever splitting up. I can't imagine a life without her.