You've got to write for your audience.

So many people aren't ready for Hollywood - professionally or practically.

All over the US, there is a need to teach young people to, really, get them out in the backyard, building treehouses, fixing bicycles, because you become a better, more well-rounded, Renaissance personality if you actually know how to do things with your hands. If you can fix the screen door or replace your old garbage disposal, even change the tire on a car, a lot of people don't even know how to do that. We're literally running out of people who know how to do those things, the essential things like plumbing, carpentry, stone masonry, we're literally running out of them.

After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it's your children. Keep that in mind.

I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before.

On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away.

So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation.