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.

I think people only have so much interest in anybody, and if you barrage them in between the times you have something to offer them you become a personality rather than an actor - much more short-lived. I only work once a year. And that's enough.

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.

My ambition from the very beginning was to make a good part for myself, something differently to what lately I've been doing.

Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.

I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'

I believe that the racial injustice which existed such a short time ago probably would have persisted longer if the color barrier had not been broken in baseball.