My father was very big on marriage.

But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.

Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't just what we're taught. It's what we experience during those early years - a smile here, a jarring sound there - that creates the pathways and connections of the brain. We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

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

I'm going to quit writing.

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.