To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.

When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.

But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to dig through libraries or travel to exotic lands to arrive at a view of our modern situation refracted through the lens of the preindustrial world, or the uncommercialized, unfranchised, perhaps unsanitized-and therefore supposedly more "authentic"-perspective ofthe Third World. Very simply, this is because that "other" world, as alien as if separated by centuries in time, is the one from which I came

If I'm remembered for having done a few good things and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.

Of all my father's teachings, the most enduring was the one about the true measure of a man. That true measure was how well he provided for his children, and it stuck with me as if it were etched in my brain.

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.