Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply - yet everyone looks at you differently.

He's famous for being obsessive about details.

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

We're here for such a short time. When your great-great-grandkids study history, don't you want them to be proud that you were part of the solution?

All parents are trying to balance. Look, I'm lucky in the sense that I can control my hours. I can choose my jobs, and not everybody has that choice. But I definitely, it's a family decision every time I take a job.

I usually play characters that are a lot different than me. I mean, I'm never in a fight in a movie and if I'm in them, I'm usually losing.

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