On many young actors that don't give their parents proper credit: I'm still waiting for some actor to win, say, an Oscar... and deliver the following acceptance speech: I would like to thank my parents, first of all, for letting me live.

Laughter brings out the child in all of us.

Calculus is one course you can come with to your parents and say, I am dropping it. And they'll understand.

Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language.

In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.

Today's parents grew up with the silly notion that music was meant to be heard.

I have to follow my thoughts and mine for the gold. I have to dig it out.