Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.

I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.

Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

Well, Thanksgiving we'll all gather at my house for dinner and we usually do Christmas at Beau's house. My mom is still feisty and kicking. She's 92. I saw her last night and she published a book at 90. It's a wonderful book called "You Caught Me Kissing" and it's basically love-poems that she wrote for my dad. It's more than that, it's a wonderful book.

I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.

My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that. The reason I do that is because I know what it takes once I engage, what that means for me personally and for my wife.

Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.