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

There have been times in my life when I have felt I was lonely, but I don't think you want to live your life in order to mitigate against loneliness.

I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.

It's always nice to anticipate working in something that you know people will have an appetite for.

I think it turned out to be a pretty good movie [42]. I wouldn't lie to you.

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?

When I first started out, I was a bad actor.