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Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film.

I don't discount belief. I just discount most of the things that people believe in.

It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.

I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.

Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.

I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.

Our human nature is exactly the same as it was 500 years ago, let alone five years ago.

I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression.

I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.

Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them.

Approaching a part or thinking about taking a part, I never think, 'Is that person like me?'

When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.

If I were gay, you know. I think Woody Allen is one of a long list of men I might go gay for.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

You do hear some strange rumours floating around. One I've heard is that I'm allergic to metal.

Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it.

Action is pretty boring to do as an actor. Action and sex scenes are silly because it's all faking.

There's two things I gotta do. One is, I gotta update my resume. And then, I have to call my mother.

It seems unlikely that we're alone in the universe. But I'm pretty sure nobody's hiding any contact.

Usually, when I act, I try to forget the words and let them come, and just find my way through them.

I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me.

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

Patrick Stewart was the first internet sex symbol without hair but pileggi always thought it was him.

In terms of likeability, that's something that I don't think about as an actor when I approach a role.

When I was a kid I ate sports books up, like "Winners Never Quit" by Phil Pepe. That was like my bible.

Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.

Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.

If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.

I think people are always trying to demystify whatever acting is, so they want to know what your method is.

You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail.

As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot.

There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.

I also watch a lot of really bad television when I'm writing, "Like Dancing With the Stars," with my daughter.

I wouldn't say we were doing that. I think we probably stopped thinking. Though it took a while to stop thinking.

I'm actually thinking about getting back to being a bath tub. I don't think anyone's ever quite segued into that.

I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor.

I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels.

TV directors just aren't sexy for some reason, Although, you know, Rob and Kim [Manners] are very sexy in my eyes.

I've made so many mistakes. But it is my feeling that you learn from failures, so I welcome them as often as I can.

I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you can watch.

One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.

A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.

I think [kids] enjoy reading, but it's a different world now. There are a lot of competitors for the imaginative attention.

If Fox Mulder discovered that Larry Sanders was a clone? I think he would stab him . . . but it wouldn't be with an ice pick.

I mean, there's chemistry in life and there's acting chemistry. I'm not saying they're the same thing, but they're as mysterious.

'Alien' is a great movie. So is 'Close Encounters.' But I'm not the guy who goes out to the science-fiction festival. '2001's good.

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