The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints.

For my wife and I, the challenge is to not make every day the best day possible because it's not realistic.

I look at improvising as a prolonged game of chess. There's an opening gambit with your pawn in a complex game I have with one character, and lots of side games with other characters, and another game with myself - and in each game you make all these tiny, tiny moves that get you to the endgame.

Don't underestimate your kids. Don't be condescending, because they're children but they're not stupid.

My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well.

How did I end up in films with people like Keira Knightley... all these beautiful leading ladies and me - it's kind of shocking.

A healthy body means a healthy mind. You get your heart rate up, and you get the blood flowing through your body to your brain. Look at Albert Einstein. He rode a bicycle. He was also an early student of Jazzercise. You never saw Einstein lift his shirt, but he had a six-pack under there.