So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

I don't like the fact that I have to get older so fast, but I like the fact that I'm aging so well.

If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.

Poverty is not dated. Homeless people have looked the same since the thirteenth century. Go back to the times of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Look at photographs. It's amazing. The face on a homeless person is timeless.

Life is an occasion...rise to it.

It isn’t a big jump in the imagination to see yourself living alone like Mr Hoppy.