Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.

All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.

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].

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

I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.

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

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.