There's a way I could have done things differently. I know that. If I offended anyone along the way, I do apologize.
I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.
I don't try to communicate with my 'audience'. I don't bother with that any more. I used to try to have conversations with people, but it's futile.
People don't understand this: if you want to have a really good shot at succeeding, there are doors you have to slam in people's faces and say, 'This is my priority, and you can't depend on me to help you.' I was never good at that.
All actors have a significant amount of vanity about work, and necessarily so. Things they will do and won't do, and I've completely lost all of that. I don't care.
Nobody cares about your autograph. There are cameras everywhere, and there are media outlets for them to 'file their story'.
Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.
I know some people who live this much more insulated life in Los Angeles, where their feet never touch public ground. They walk out of their bathroom, their living room, they get into their garage, their car, and the next thing you know, they're at the valet parking of the restaurant or the store or the office. They're in a bubble the whole time.
My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn't commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn't go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish.
I want to go make a movie and be very present for that and give it everything I have, and after we're done, then the rest of the time is mine.
John McTiernan, the director, is not Ingmar Bergman. He does action-adventure movies.
I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue.
I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing. We had to amuse ourselves, so we had to become amusing.
I'm doing 'Rock of Ages' one day, making out with Russell Brand. Soon after that, I'm advocating with Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Cynthia Nixon for marriage equality.
When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out.
I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm not necessarily going to leave the United States.
Hollywood does draw some very strange characters, and then the power of Hollywood and what they can do with it becomes like a blood sport to them.
When I'm not working, I dress like a surfer. I look like I'm going to come into your house and clean your pool.
I'd do anything to have more kids. But that's probably not gonna happen now.
There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap.
