My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.

I don't think you have to be perfect to be a role model.

I can't help but be a little more gun-shy and wary about people.

There was a period in my life where I went out a lot and I had a really good time. But that period is over.

I think it was Alfred Hitchcock who said 90 percent of successful moviemaking is in the casting. The same is true in life. Who you are exposed to, who you choose to surround yourself with, is a unique variable in all of our experiences and it is hugely important in making us who we are. Seek out interesting characters, tough adversaries and strong mentors and your life can be rich, textured, highly entertaining and successful, like a Best Picture winner. Surround yourself with dullards, people of vanilla safety and unextraordinary ease, and you may find your life going straight to DVD.

I am getting on in years, and I have a very extensive IMDB page, and I cannot keep track of my own credits.

I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.