I always knew that someone was going to come at me with a script to play God. It's just one of those things, the way your career is unfolding and all the talk about gravitas etc etc, so I had a strong feeling that someone was going to offer me the part of God. I was totally prepared to say, 'Thanks but no thanks,' unless it was a comedy.

Every job's a challenge. The challenge is to do it and make it look right, like you belong there - wherever that is.

You don't know how much you appreciate your privacy until you don't have it.

I believe in helping the planet survive, and that includes reaching out to help some of the disappearing creatures whose habitats we're destroying. It's up to us to somehow reverse that trend. I don't know how we'll achieve it, but we need to.

All you have to do is believe, then you will see everything.

I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.

Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law. And that man's feeble attempt to lay down the principles of deceny.