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FORBES ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS

Forbes on His Interests

"Robin Williams is my inspiration. I remember seeing him in Mork & Mindy when I was a little kid. I said, 'That guy's a god.' If I don't work with him before I die, my career will have been a failure. I get the feeling that [even] he doesn't really know what he's going to do when he steps on set. But whatever it is, you can bet it won't be boring. It's going to be real, and it's going to be fascinating." (SID 11/8/05)

(on his interest in construction) "There's something very humanizing about building stuff. It's not in any way esoteric and self-important. It keeps your respect for other people, and I was taught from an early age to do that stuff." (SOD 12/20/05)

(if he could spend one night with any person in history) "Marilyn Monroe? Cleopatra? Marilyn Monroe dressed as Cleopatra? Ah, the hassle from my wife wouldn't be worth it. I guess I'd have to settle for [Winston] Churchill." (SOD 5/30/06)

(on the East Coast farm he bought) "I've been dreaming of a little mini-farm since I was a kid, and went carrot-picking on my friend's farm. Anybody who has a farm will laugh, but if you're from the city, eight acres is a lot of land. And it's all covered in corn." (SID 9/25/07)

(on his favorite place in the entire world) "Kejimkujik National Park in Nova Scotia. There's an amazing chain of lakes to canoe through every summer, and the lakes have islands. So you'll camp on the island -- it's all yours -- then you'll canoe to another island and stay on that one, all the way through the park. It's fantastic and so beautiful." (SID 11/6/07)

Forbes on Style and Fashion

"I don't dress according to what I think looks good, I dress according to what I feel in the morning. I love anything expressive -- painting, sculpture, film, poetry, music or fashion -- they're all expressions on how you feel about things. And I love clothing." (SOW August 2006)

(on his decision to wear a black tux to the 2006 Daytime Emmys) "I looked at myself and thought, 'Oh, my God, everybody's going to think I'm walking the line.' I thought the white scarf would break it up, but then all of a sudden I became one of the Rat Pack boys. There really wasn't as much thought going into it as people gave me credit for." (SOW August 2006)

(boxers or briefs?) "I'm a bit of a boxer brief guy. You know, men have stuff that needs to be kept in place and boxers just don't do that. But briefs just have gotten a bad rap and I'm too vain to get caught in them, so I go for the middle ground, between functionality and vanity: boxer briefs." (SOD 4/17/07)

(on explaining his attire at OLTL's themed "Mega-Yacht, Holiday Chic" party) "Mega-yacht chic to me meant, 'Miami Vice in the '80's!' I love Miami Vice, so I dressed like one of the greasy, bad guys with the ponytail." (SOD 1/22/08)

Forbes on Romance

(on what he finds attractive in a partner) "They have to make me laugh. That's a cliche, but it's absolutely true. And they have to tolerate me -- that's a big one...and I'm a bit of an ankle guy [laughs]." (SOD 4/17/07)

(on what turns him on) "It sounds so macho, but I like feminine women. I like women who embrace the fact that they're women. That doesn't mean being meek or subservient...but I love women who are proud to be women." (SOD 4/17/07)

Forbes on Forbes

(on the rumor that he and his mother are descended from Scottish hero William Wallace) "It can't be. It's lunacy. It's ludicrous. He had no sons, so the bloodline stopped with him. Even more ludicrous, my last name is March. Who turned in William Wallace? March. So I'm half the ultimate Scottish hero and half the ultimate Scottish traitor." (SOD 12/20/05)

"I don't want to be one of these under-40 politically active actors. I don't think anybody should get into politics unless he's marching and, you know, getting hit with tear gas." (SID 4/25/06)

(on a life lesson he has learned) "If I'm not having fun, I'm in the wrong place." (SOD 5/30/06)

"I'm a real skeptic, so I'm generally comfortable when things are off and everybody around me hates me. When things are good and people are friendly and work is going well, I become very suspicious that somebody's pulling the hood over my eyes." (SOW 5/1/07)