I`ve had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don`t know that I`ve ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.

I try to parent equally, but I think little girls are a little more sensitive.

I had no idea what I was going to do when they threw me out of school.

Even though some of the films I`ve made haven`t been particularly commercial, I don`t find them failures.

It`s a joy to be recognized and to have people that are interested in what you do. That can pick up your whole day.

If I die tomorrow, I`ve accomplished everything I wanted to do in life.

Let me just say, I`ve seen a pub or two.

I`m better than [Robert De Niro], I`m better than [Al Pacino]. I`ve got the talent, they`ve got the material.

[interviewed on the "Ron and Ron" radio talk show] I can do whatever I want--I`m rich, I`m famous, and I`m bigger than you."

TV actors are bigger than movie actors these days. More people see them, more people recognize them; the salaries in TV are rivaling those in feature films.

I`ve never been very successful in a monogamous relationship, but I`m looking forward to the day when I can assume that responsibility.

This is what I do for a living and it`s not who I am as a human being.

This is what I do for a living. It`s not who I am as a human being.

I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.

I joined the PBA way before I should have because I heard a rumor they were going to limit the number of people who could get in.

Every bowling center should have a house pro.

I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.

I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort.

I`m just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.

I can do whatever I want - I`m rich, I`m famous, and I`m bigger than you.

(on landing Miami Vice) For anybody, let alone someone coming from Missouri, and someone with absolutely no contacts or no understanding of the business, I was very lucky.

I`d like to think I haven`t done my best yet.

My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons.

I made a decision that whether or not I was going to make under the national poverty level wasn`t going to play a part in whether or not I was an actor. That`s what I do.

You`re in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It`s all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult.

London is one of the most enchanting places I`ve ever been on this planet.

I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn`t get it out. You can always depend on a guitar.

Being with all those great bowlers was the greatest three days I ever had.

I`m not qualified for anything else, so I would imagine I`d either be doing something larcenous or I would have already been caught.

My favorite actor is Wallace Beery.

It`s my job to really commit myself to the material and the project and be proud of what I`ve done, and I am in most cases.

The way our business is, the way it works out, we end up being residents of everywhere.

Hollywood is very much an industry town. Your life becomes caught up in all of the parties and this list and that list. That`s not something that I respond well to.

The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

Anybody, any actor, any director, will tell you that the hardest job in show business is doing a weekly series, because you work 16, 14, 15 hours a day, five days a week.

If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn`t really matter what it is.

I like to have really fine things. I have a great appreciation for fine art, fine homes, fine wine, fine cigars and fine friends.

It wasn`t a mission to be a rock star. It wasn`t a mission of mine to even be a movie star. I just intended to be a good actor.

I am stable when my private life is a success.

I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don`t want to know nothing about you!

I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along.

I do what I can to make young people understand that drugs can destroy their lives. I`m the perfect example of what people can accomplish when they have regained a sane body and spirit.