There's something therapeutic about nudity. Clothing is one of the external things about a character. Take away the Gucci or Levi's and we're all the same. But not when the nanny is around. But I will with my wife and kids.

With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is.

Everybody's got bills to pay. Sometimes you see people just go straight for the money, and that's disappointing.

There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren't any more qualified than the average man on the street.

A lot of times, the script is the thing they care about least.

If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like hes a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that youre on your way into the grave.

Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.