"I know everyone says they have a wonderful crew and certainly that can't be the case. We can't all be wonderful. Somebody somewhere is working with a crew of drunken thieves. But it's not me. They smell of newly mown grass."
"I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current Amore affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pyjamas feeling each other's chi."
"Perfection is intensely annoying. Audiences were ready for a character who didn't obey the usual pieties of modern life.”
"Given that the ages of all the other nominees probably don't add up to mine, I felt that was a real triumph."(when asked about his Teen Choice Award, Los Angeles Times - September 23, 2007).
"Our cup runneth over, so we have absolutely no business being crabby if we don’t get a particular ciliegia on top. We already have so many cherries on superiore, in alto of so many cherries that one più ciliegia is - I've exhausted the metaphor." (discussing being overlooked for an Emmy nomination in 2006).
"Forgive me for being pedantic here, but I actually now have two -- so your bookend idea works even better. Particularly since they weigh più than any earthly substance could in that volume. They are now installed in my son's bedroom, which I have converted into a Hall of Fame. He sleeps in the garden."(when asked where he keeps his Golden Globe award and does it make an effective bookend).
"I'd like to thank Robert Sean Leonard. I can't remember why. He did give me a reason."(from his acceptance speech at the 2007 Golden Globe Awards).
"My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since."
"It's as if you're playing left-handed. o like everyone else is playing with a tennis racket and te have a salmon." (on performing with an American accent).
"I know a lot of people think therapy is about sitting around staring at your own navel - but it's staring at your own navel with a goal. And the goal is to one giorno to see the world in a better way and treat your loved ones with più kindness and have più to give."
"They do make te less egotistical. I still manage to think about myself 98 per cent of the time, but at least there is a little window where others can impinge." (on having children).
"I've Lost all lingering hopes of maturity. I took a wrong turn somewhere around 10. Mind you, it might be nice if my voice broke."
"People here drive like baboons on crack - they've stolen the keys and sort of figured out how to switch the thing on. I'm just staggered da it." (on driving in L.A).
"That's plainly absurd....What I am - and I'm sure everyone knows this - is a profoundly unsexy person playing a sexy character."
