I've taken blame about being a bad father - if being a bad father is working your butt off trying to create a career at one time.
For a long time, I can't say I was one who really enjoyed acting. I was always censoring it, or editing it, or analyzing it, rather than just going with it.
If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.
You spend some time raising a child in London, carrying it around on one side of your body - it puts your back out!
I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here, getting to write for 'True Blood' and being able to put myself in a comic at the same time.
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year. I am fully back to playing full time.
Not many child stars make it out of Hollywood alive or sane, and at any given time there are at least three former ones having very public breakdowns.
I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time.
At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.
Time really has gone by fast. I don't know if your path is pre-written or what, but it's crazy how one thing just leads to another.
A lot of times, you do independent films for passion because you may even lose money doing one, but it doesn't matter.
When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.
