It's time to change the conversation about nature to focus on what we all have in common: our shared humanity.

I had never even thought about doing something that I'd never done before or proving anything.

You have to remember that baseball really was the American pastime in the Forties, not football, basketball or any other sport.

There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

I don't think I have something that's pronounceable as a philosophy. ... When it was fashionable to say, "May the Force be with you," I always said, "Force yourself." ... I'll say again then, "The Force is within you. Force yourself."

Acting is not about competing. Acting is about cooperating. Acting is about collaboration. It's about your utility, your usefulness, your capacity to add to the work that has already been done and will be done. You're just part of a team. I never feel competitive about acting.

I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.