If you are writing a story and trying to draw an audience to come and hear you tell it, it's got to in some way relate to them. Who wants to come and hear about your specific problems? It's not therapy - it's supposed to be a communal piece of entertainment.

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.

You know, a one-term president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been, in the long run of the country, much better.

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

If you're just an actor you're reactive. You're saying, "Well, I hope Hollywood gives me a role, or gives me a chance at a role," whereas if you can generate your own content, then you can go where you want to go.

All you have in the end is to look back and like the choices you've made.

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.