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've always wanted to be bald. I mean it, completely bald. Wouldn't it be great to be bald in the rain?

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

Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do.

You always have to know what the ambition of the scene is, what the purpose of that scene is in the telling of the story overall, so that you're there to support the story.

I have children. I have other concerns. I have other focuses. I really feel very sympathetic and I would love to be able to help but I don't see this as the opportunity, having done 'Extraordinary measures', for me to suddenly leap on a soap box and begin to talk about the pharmaceutical industry or the desperate plight of sick children. I do what I can in my world but I don't have the bona fides to do that right now.

There's no independent satisfaction without the success of the film itself. The feel that you have done the best you can to support the film.