Bikes and planes aren’t about going fast or having fun; they’re toys, but serious ones.

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

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

I saw what luck and success I had as an opportunity to twist it up and do something different, so I've always sought out different genres and different kinds of characters.

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.

I've never been bothered by proximity to special effects and I've never felt disadvantaged by them. They're all part of a movie, and when the movie's under control I don't feel upstaged by them.

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.