It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.

I've worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and stuff, and I'm a team player.

Everybody loses a couple, and you either pack it up and go home or you keep on fighting.

Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.

One thing I want to do is create something called Ring Around Congress. It would be a state deal and also a national thing, where the kids, as a field trip, will go and join hands around Congress and give the politicians report cards on how they're voting on hunger issues.

I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.

Hope's interesting, isn't it? I can't turn hope off, it's hopeless.