I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces.

Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard enough.

My old man had a philosophy: peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.

I never know when the seeds are being laid, I'm just like, "Wow, that's a pretty cool scene. Is that? Are we laying seeds here?"

Mediocrity is my biggest fear. I'm not afraid of total failure because I don't think that will happen. I'm not afraid of success because that beats the hell out of failure. It's being in the middle that scares me.

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.

Sometimes everything you need to know to be an actor in your mid-forties, you learn before you were 15 years old.