You know what's cool? My kids think I'm ordinary.

He gave life to the breath- oxygen, a simple gas, he transferred into words, ideas, hope.

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul.

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

If one of my kids reads a book for school and I can have a conversation with her about the book and I sense that she gets what the book is about, then it doesn't really matter to me if she gets an A on the paper.

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.