You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success.

My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.

It's not the years honey, it's the mileage.

I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.

I don't do stunts - I do running, jumping and falling down. After 25 years I know exactly what I'm doing.

Because the character is a fiction, he's a composite of other contributors to the science that brought this enzyme therapy through the process. We had the opportunity to make him up out of those things that helped tell the story. We wanted to create both ally and antagonist for John [in the Extraordinary measures].

Irish as a person but I feel Jewish as an actor.