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

Pain is temporary, film is forever.

When I was 20, I would have taken a bullet in the head to never have to be 35.

My notion of spirituality was different than it is now, but even if I'd been the most fundamentalist of believers, I would have assumed that God had better things to do than arbitrarily smite me with shaking palsy.

When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.

I'm kind of private and I keep things inside a lot, but it's been so wonderful to realize that people care about you in a very deep way and that there is some bond between an actor and his audience. I don't even know how to describe that feeling.

I have a remarkably normal life.