And I'm as attached to my wife as anybody can be to another human being.

He was also mentioned by Pearl Forrester and Leonard Maltin in Mystery Science Theater 3000 – in the Gorgo episode (episode 9 season 9) – as the perfect companion to Mickey Rourke for producing the "worst movie ever made. He starred as the protagonist in the 1980 dramatisation of Willa Cather's 1905 short story Paul's Case. The source of the estrangement had been his past drug abuse and her siding with his ex-girlfriend over the custody of his daughter Emma.

Through the 1990s and 2000s he maintained dramatic film and TV-movie roles while appearing in TV series. His career began with King of the Gypsies (1978) earning a Golden Globe nomination for best actor debut. His sisters Julia Roberts and Lisa Roberts Gillan and daughter Emma Roberts are also actors.