Acting is not about competing. Acting is about cooperating. Acting is about collaboration. It's about your utility, your usefulness, your capacity to add to the work that has already been done and will be done. You're just part of a team. I never feel competitive about acting.

I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.

I found out that drama was a fascinating exercise as a way to get out of my self and into somebody else's head.

I didn't play much ball. I wasn't much of a ball fan.

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

With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion.

What I found was an emotional consistency with him. The words, the scenes, the situations - I wasn't mimicking what I thought Branch Rickey's emotional reality would have been.