Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken.

I had interest in acting. I started as a drama major in college. I got to school and said, "What am I going to do with this?" But I didn't know anybody in the business, and it seemed like - I don't know. I had a teacher who said "Less than 1 percent of you will ever make a living being an actor." That was how we opened the semester.

I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.

Everybody's family has problems.

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.

Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken.

My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool.