I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

When I met scientists, I found them to be as various as any other group of people.

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 love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.

I played maybe one and a half games of Little League. The whole atmosphere of anxious parents and more anxious children was just too much for me.