The better the actor, the less you know about his life. I mean, nobody's better than De Niro and you don't know anything about him, right?

The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes.

I'm becoming far more interested in just functionality and making sure my body is as strong as it can be so I can swing my kids around and not worry about aches and pains.

Poverty feeds into the clean-water crisis, which contributes to hunger, and so on. There's undeniable interconnectivity among these issues. Just one of these problems can be deadly on its own, but in the most disadvantaged areas there is a perfect storm of problems. And it takes its greatest toll on children.

If you work at something, you get better at it.

I’ll play Pretty Pretty Princess with you if you just let me watch a little bit of March Madness.

Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year.