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She [Virginia Madsen] and I had a really long relationship after that movie ['Class'] I love her, and I can imagine it was not much fun to do that big sequence with a bunch of laughing, ogling frat-boy actors. I mean, can you imagine putting up with me, [John] Cusack, Alan Ruck, and Andrew McCarthy at 18?Collection: Fun
Ridley Scott's company makes great work in whatever arena, whether it's movies or commercials or television. They just do really quality stuff, so you know it's going to be quality.Collection: Quality
Ginnifer Goodwin said it very well - we're not doing the Hall Of Presidents at Disneyland. This is my interpretation of [J.F] Kennedy.Collection: President
[On "John F. Kennedy" set] everybody was very interested in the accent. Even my collaborators were very curious to know if I was even going to do it. And I was, like, "You just can't not do it." I think everybody was worried that it was going to sound like the guy from... is it The Simpsons?Collection: Thinking
I think my thing is that I try and pick up on things that other people have maybe not picked up on.Collection: Thinking
I think I have a pretty good ear. I mean, even just starting with, like, Austin Powers, where I did young Robert Wagner. People were, like, "How do you imitate Robert Wagner? What does he sound like? What does that even involve?".Collection: Mean
I also listened to hours and hours and hours and hours and hours of [J.F.] Kennedy, and I sort of built [ accent]. And then I got on set [of 'J.F.Kennedy' movie ] and forgot it.But that's what you want to do. You want it to just be real. And I think authenticity was better than - people always talk about when an accent doesn't work, and the phrase you always hear is, "It was inconsistent."Collection: Real
My first lessons in comedy, how to construct a joke, I learned from Eileen Brennan, who had unbelievable timing.Collection: Lessons
One of my favorite books [The Stand] of all time. I grew up reading it.Collection: Book
The media have such a strong hand in deciding what people's perceptions are. They decide what the agenda is going to be, what the issues are.Collection: Strong
You can't believe everything you read. It's never been more true.Collection: Believe
It's the media that take an isolated incident and make it a deciding factor in a presidential campaign, as opposed to the real issues, like abortion, the homeless, the deficit. The same is true with actors and their lifestyles.Collection: Real
I don't think you have to be perfect to be a role model.Collection: Thinking
Kids are growing up and they don't know the difference between fact and fiction. The line is getting blurry. I can handle it, you know; I'm a big boy. And the entertainment industry has always been crazy. But the problem is, it spills over into some very serious issues, in politics and real newsworthy stuff.Collection: Growing Up
In school, I had two or three best guy friends, but mostly if I was just hanging, I'd like to talk to the girls, because they were more interesting. I think they were smarter.Collection: Girl
It's part of your job as an actor to put your personal problems behind you and work. Good actors can do that.Collection: Jobs
What people do in their private lives is their business, and shouldn't be anybody else's business.Collection: People
Everybody is naughty, everybody is good.Collection: Naughty
I think that in today's world the right to privacy and freedom of the press are set on a collision course.Collection: Thinking
There was a period in my life where I went out a lot and I had a really good time. But that period is over.Collection: Good Times
My life is really based around my house and my friends and my family at the moment, and has been for a while now.Collection: House
Conventions are, by nature, a party. I mean, that's why people become delegates. They come from all over the world to exercise their democratic rights and to party.Collection: Party
I don't like to let my celebrity interfere with me living my life. I like to meet people, I like to talk to people.Collection: People
I happen to be a movie star, but I'm not saying, "Hey, I'm a role model. Imitate me."Collection: Stars
I meet so many people. I want to be genuine and open with everyone, because when I was young and just starting out, I remember I was around people who were successful, and I thought that some were kind of cool or off-putting to their fans. It always really bothered me. So I think I may sometimes go too far out of my way.Collection: Successful
People should be allowed to do whatever they want in the privacy of their own home or their own hotel room.Collection: Home
When people consent to do something, they should be able to do whatever they want.Collection: People
When I'm angry I'm an incredibly tough person, because I don't get angry easily.Collection: Tough Person
I can't help but be a little more gun-shy and wary about people.Collection: Gun
As far as my work for causes or social issues, that's something I'm doing as a private citizen.Collection: Issues
Contrary to popular belief, I don't go out very much. When I do go out, a lot of times it'll be to something like a heavyweight fight, and I'll be photographed, so that people have this conception that I go out a lot.Collection: Fighting
The fact is, I have a great home and I like to have people come up. I meet enough people just doing my grocery shopping; I don't need to go out and meet any more people.Collection: Home
I'll be a role model on my terms, but don't make a role model on your terms.Collection: Role Models
It was a little company that released [Bad Influence], it was really ahead of its time... I'm really proud of it. And it's Curtis Hanson. He'd directed a small movie before that, but it was his first directorial work that really worked.Collection: Proud
Helmut Newton shot the ad campaign [for Bad Influence]. It's [James] Spader at the top of his game, right after Sex, Lies And Videotape. It's sexy. It's weird. It's dark. The characters are great.Collection: Sexy
[Bad Influence]was David Koepp's first big screenplay. It was actually a writing sample that was around town to get David work at the time, and Steve Tisch - now the owner of the New York Giants - found it, loved it, and together we put it together. But I'd say that would be the one I'd tell people to go and look at if they haven't seen it.Collection: New York
[Hank in the Sex Tape] such a fun part. That's how Jake Kasdan and I ended up doing The Grinder together, because we had such a great time on Sex Tape.Collection: Sex
I just had such a blast coming up with this corporate dweeb [in the Sex Tape], a sort of nerd who was also doing coke and listening to death metal and was obsessed with Walt Disney art. I just felt it was a type of guy you hadn't really seen before, and I was so happy with how it came out.Collection: Art
The script was given to me by one of my agents and they didn't tell me anything about it. My first reaction was, "The West Wing? Is it about a squadron of fighter jets?" Then I turned the page and saw, 'by Aaron Sorkin' and I knew it was going to be something good.Collection: Fighter
Trying to execute that kind of intricate staging in the West Wing at the same time you're doing intricate dialogue - it's like patting your head and rubbing your stomach!Collection: Trying
We had shot six episodes of the West Wing season when 9/11 happened. An extraordinary thing that would never happen today is Aaron going to the network and saying, "I think we need to go back and reshoot, I have something I want to do," and the network just kind of let him do it.Collection: Thinking
The universe works in mysterious ways and for me it worked out perfectly. With all respect to everybody else, Aaron Sorkin is and was The West Wing, full stop. There's no West Wing without him.Collection: Mysterious
[Wayne's World and Tommy Boy] was all from hosting Saturday Night Live the first time [in 1990]. I just had such a great time, and I had such a simpatico relationship with Mike Myers. And Lorne [Michaels]. I'll always be grateful for Lorne, who saw me as funny.Collection: Grateful
To go from "gnarly" to "literally," that shows I'm growing up, right?Collection: Growing Up
Somebody once told me - and I could be wrong about this - that The West Wing was, on any given episode, $300,000 over, on average. Now today, if you were $10,000 over budget, they would cancel you. For sure.Collection: Today
I don't like any sport where you're already exhausted when you're done putting on the equipment.Collection: Sports
Sam Seaborn is the best character that's ever been written for me, certainly. By far. And it's a timeless show [The West Wing], one that's having another resurgence now, with people so in an uproar politically.Collection: Character
You would not believe the amount of feedback I've gotten over people binge-watching The West Wing. Most of them have binge-watched it countless times.Collection: Believe
The West Wing and The Outsiders are the gifts that keep on giving.Collection: Wings