At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.

The thing about me is I have a great little acting school. I teach about 125 students.

I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.

If 'Black Balloon' had come out before 'The Mummy,' casting agents wouldn't have been able to see me for the first time in 'The Mummy.' But now that 'The Mummy' has come out before 'The Black Balloon,' that's a very good combination.

At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week.