"Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time."

"I was depressed doing "ER". I started gaining weight, I was eating donuts, I started smoking again. I’m eating McDonalds, things that I know when I’m depressed I do. I tried to kill myself internally."

About his work

"Like a penis wearing a condom".
- About the clown costume in "Spawn"

"I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe. You're not following the plot, or the next action beat, or promoting some big dumb movie. Independent film is for actors that love to act. There's more interesting storytelling. It's not about a paycheck, that's for damn sure."

"I always improvise, you know. That's my thing. Luckily, I'm a writer, so I always try...If there's great writing, improvising just adds a little bit more to it. Just takes it to another level. 'Cause an actor, believe it or not, really knows his character more than anybody else, even more than the original writer. Even more than the director. At some point, we know that character better than anybody else. Especially if you connect with it, and it's infinite possibilities that can come out of you. And I think the better directors know that they have final cut, and the more they let you go, the more choices they're gonna have in the editing room to create a performance or to change things. I mean, you just give them crazy choices and they can do whatever. A smart director, the more confident ones who have experience, know that in the editing room, it's all theirs. It's not a problem. It's the newer cats who haven't had experience who are sometimes a little too precious about their own words."

"I loved working on Carlito's Way, with Brian De Palma - it was so exciting and the first time I really understood what film acting was for me."

"They had tons of little people who would leap around and do all kinds of things. They were all actually very sexy and they were always flirting with me."
- About the set of "Moulin Rouge!"

"We were holding hands and walking, and I'd double over laughing, I'd think: This is way to ridiculous."
- About his on screen romance in "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar"

"I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in."

"Comics are much smarter than actors. Most comedians come from a hard life, and have to struggle a lot. You have to have a lot of skills. When you can hone all of that, and act, you're going to blow the world away."

About other people

"He's very method and I think he started PMS:ing. He was moody"
- About Patrick Swazey, co-star from "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everyting! Julie Newmar"

"I was glad Pacino's short. We short guys have radar. I swear he's like five foot six, shorter than me even. But we have big heads. It makes us look taller."
- About Al Pacino

"She's my Amazon love. She's six foot-one. I met her when she was sitting down so I didn't know how tall she was. Then I realized. When I look at pictures I go, Oh my God, I look like a dwarf."
- About ex girlfriend Carolyn McDermott

"She looks like a 21st century Ann-Margret"
- About Nicole Kidman

"Michael J Fox is the friendliest, most pleasant person I ever worked with. Maybe because he is short. I don't know. The Thai people can't pronounce "x" so they called him Michael J Fuck. It was a joke to all of us."
- About Michael J Fox

"She came on to me many times, but I rebuffed her. My girlfriend wasn't having that. Kidding! Nicole was a lively bon vivant. She gaves us Cristal and beluga caviar when we wrapped."
- About Nicole Kidman

Others about John

"John is one of my favorite actors alive right now."
- Ethan Hawke, actor

"He might be the funniest person I've ever met in my entire life."
- Drea de Matteo, actress

"He's been fantastic. I really feel a bond with John."
- Adrien Brody, actor

"He got onstage and just stayed there. We needed a broom to get him off."
- Abigail Rosen, creative director at Off Center Theater

"The best thing about the movie is John's legs"
- Beeban Kidron, director of "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar"

"He sings silly songs, makes up funny words. He's basically my 4-year-old"
- Justine Maurer, wife

"Women loose their balance around him. They fall in ditches, bump into each other"
- Wesley Snipes, actor

"One's mind doesn't immediatly go to an actor from Jackson Heights to play a 19th century Parisian painter. But John is such a relentless character actor that he'll do whatever it takes, including chasing me around the kitchen of the Chateau Marmont on the prosthetic legs to prove he could play Lautrec."
- Baz Luhrmann, director of "Moulin Rouge!"

"I thought he was kind of shy. But he looked good in racing shorts"
- Yelba Osorio, ex wife