It's important not to base your ambition on anybody else's history, but to figure out how best to use your own particular personality and understanding of yourself to help tell other people's stories.

People need to see what's going on, and they have to be exposed to the mechanisms that can help make it right.

Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.

Los Angeles is where you have to be if you want to be an actor. You have no choice. You go there or New York. I flipped a coin about it. It came up New York, so I flipped again. When you're starting out to be an actor, who wants to go where it's cold and miserable and be poor there?

It doesn't matter to me whether I go back to outer space or not [while acting]. The job's the same and I don't have any sort of genre preferences. I'm looking for a good story and a good character, whether earthbound or not.

I don't want to be a movie star. I want to be in movies that are stars.

I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.