To me there is nothing so admirable as a passionate love-bond between two human begins. Sam loves Frodo and wants to protect him and Frodo is extremely protective of Sam. So what you have are these two people locked into this journey together. They don't need to explain what they are to each other, they don't need to talk about it; they just are.

I definitely loved going on stage, I loved the nervous feeling and the performance and the doing-ness of it. It always felt kind of natural and inevitable and logical.

I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me.

It's just fun to be on a movie set and looking to find the comedy in sweet, simple family moments.

The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook.

My wife is very patient. On our honeymoon in 1992, we got a motor home and drove from L.A. to Idaho and then down the coast. I was running a lot, then so she would drop me off, drive six miles, park and wait for me.

A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right.