Even the people that support Bush aren't happy with the way things are going in Iraq.

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

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

It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous.

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.

I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you and putting make-up on you and telling you when to wake up and when to go to sleep, holding your hand to cross the street. I can do it up to a certain point, and then I start to feel like a puppet.

I try to show compassion to people I come into contact with and try to put good out, as much good as I can. But that's my life; that's not my work. With my work, my job is to walk in another man's shoes.