Parker Stevenson

Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.

If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.

I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.

I have a lot of kids in my district who haven't been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that's 20 miles away.

Going up north with the redwoods and driving along the coast, it's got everything, man. It's got the desert, the mountains, and the ocean. It's beautiful.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?