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

I never followed baseball very much. As a kid, I never followed sports.

I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series.

I haven't purposefully set out to play heroes. I'm interested in playing the character who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances. But he's really either just saving himself or acting in the service of something that's important to him.

I need a challenge. I need the intellectual stimulation. I'm a member of a community on each film, working in concert to try to bring an idea to life. It's a great job.

The only thing hard about being an actor is being out of work. So, when you get a job - that part ain't hard at all.

I try to preserve a certain amount of time away from the movies, so I don't allow time to do those smaller parts that might give me an opportunity to do more seemingly 'artful' things. Although, having said that, I don't feel any lack of noble purpose if I do a film that's commercial.