You can only lead by example, and you can only say it might be better for you if. But nobody can do anything until they're ready to do it. So you can sit down with a strong-minded young man of 24, as my son was at a point, and say now listen, this, this, this, and this.

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.

There's nothing like the bravery and the strength and the extraordinary optimism of a five-year-old child in a cancer hospital, fighting to live. It's there inside the spirit.

You can only lead by example.

And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.