 I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive. |
| My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it. |
| I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know? |
| My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of. |
| The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it. |
| I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then. |
| When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies. |
| There are three things we need to do for a band. We need to make a great record; we need to get the record played; and we need to find an audience for the live shows. |
| There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work. |
| When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. |
| I think the most attractive thing is a sense of humour. If someone can make you laugh, you've gotten a lot out of the way. |
| When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else. |
| One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he takes charge. |
| I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press. |
| There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom. |
| I'm not that complicated as an actor. I have a formula in which I work, yeah. But not like Sean Penn does. Sean is one of the few actors I know who can work like that, actually becoming the character he is playing, and get consistent results. I don't believe you can ever be someone else. You manifest different levels of your own personality to come up with a character. |
| I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having. |
| When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things. |
| Youth is an amazing thing: I think back on when we did The Lost Boys, and I didn't think I could do anything wrong. |
| When Julia and I broke up and I was really scared to go into a market or anywhere because I thought, 'Oh God, everyone must hate me. And that wasn't the case. People said, 'I'm sorry this happened, man. Are you alright?' |
