To be honest, I’ve made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we’re either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
I don’t want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don’t want to be the Dance Dude. I don’t want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it’d drive me crazy.
The steps aren’t enough. Feel the music.
Life sure has a sick sense of humor, doesn’t it?
Everything is designed to help you sell out.
I’ve never been one to run from a challenge.
I don’t know what’s on the other side.
Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.
I’m not afraid of death. I’m going home.
You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.
As always, I appreciate all the love and support people have sent and continue to send my way.
I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.
It just blows me away that I am on, I don’t know what generation of fans.
The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.
If I’m going to do television, I wanted that ‘North and South’ experience. I wanted something that’s going to challenge me on a constant basis.
When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I’ll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn’t take it seriously any longer.
I thought it was all over. My lungs were filling with water and I began to black out. Then I saw an ancient warrior rise up out of the water. He said we’d make it, and we did. I believe we all have an angel watching us.
If anybody had that cure out there like so many people swear to me they do, you’d be two things: you’d be very rich, and you’d be very famous. Otherwise, shut up.
I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.
What’s powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It’s seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.