I write from my imagination, not from what I`ve read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.

On making the A-Team: "The problem is that the people who created the show had no idea what it was. They didn`t understand what the show was because it became something other than what they intended. The network hated us; the people in authority were like the military in the show, trying to control us. We took control of it. We made it much funnier than it was, and we made it much more politically incorrect than it was intended to be. All the liberals in Hollywood hated it; they hated the cigars, the guns, the bravado and the fact we always thought we were right."

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.

Movies are movies, television is television.

Children who cling to parents or who don`t want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.

Hollywood today is ALL about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in ONE BOX.

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child`s life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.

When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.

From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.

I`m a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people.

It helps to be able to be alone. `Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don`t do that. Ask my ex-wife.

Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that`s another discussion entirely.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

I am very abnormal... But it wasn`t very long ago that I wasn`t so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!

The best things in life are usually difficult.

From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.

Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.

Women are from Venus. Men are from Mars. Hamlet does not scan as Hamletta. Nor does Han Solo as Han Sally. Faceman is not the same as Facewoman. Nor does a Stardoe a Starbuck make. Men hand out cigars. Women `hand out` babies. And thus the world, for thousands of years, has gone round.

I`m only proud of two things in my life; one is my children, the second is my first book.

It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa.

Life: my favorite occupation.

I never get involved with the ladies I work with.

I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.

I`m the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.

You can`t leave civilization behind entirely.

To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.

I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!

The space genre is timeless.

Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

Anybody can write a film script `cuz it has been reduced to a formula.

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.

I have written two nonfiction books, I`m embarrassed to say.

Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.

Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God`s children.

If you want to have great success, you`d better give them what they want, but so be it.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it.

We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that`s been hanging around and killed our dog, we don`t have a care in the world.

America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.

There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It`s called procreation, and it is reborn, continually and forever.

It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.

In many ways I wish I wasn`t an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.

On the A-Team: "I enjoyed it immensely. By nature I`m terribly serious, so as an actor I tend to want to be silly. It was a comedic show, almost like a cartoon. We just had to hang on to enough reality to make it possible for adults to watch it. The actors I worked with, especially Mr T and Dwight Schultz were very funny people. It was pretty much four years of laughter."