Being a father is like directing Alien or Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It's much more difficult than directing an episode of TV. Also, directing a show or movie lasts a few months at most, parenting lasts for decades.

The philosophical underpinnings of my approach to acting are that there are universal human qualities, and that every character is actually available within each one of us, that if we tap down into that universal humanness, we can find whatever character it is that we need to play already there within ourselves, and it's just a matter of peeling apart the onion that is you and finding that character within you, because of this universal human quality.

Even small acts of kindness can make a profound difference to somebody else.

Be kind to yourself so you can be happy enough to be kind to the world.

Technology has changed the fan/actor interaction quite a bit.

Meditating takes on a different quality when someone taps you on the shoulder and says, "Dad, why are you sleeping like that?"

Perhaps I shifted from "me" to "we" when I realized that "I" could get a lot more done with "us."