I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.

You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That's magical. He's done a great thing.

If something is working, don't fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.

Many years ago, in the late '70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire, read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.

My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That's my mantra.

All I am is what I'm going after.

You'll never be alone if you’ve got a book.