If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.

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

It's harder when people are playing along, because it's just not as funny. They're trying to be funny, and it sort of cancels out the whole joke.

I am a patriot and I want to see this country [the USA] soar again.

Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It's disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there's something visceral about opening a letter - I see her on the page. I see her in her handwriting.

People generally have sex fairly young, and probably younger than they should be having it.

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