I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.

I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous.

People that spend time in a foxhole - they're never going to find that relationship anywhere else again... Everything else pales next to that. When you think about the Second World War vets - more than even the Vietnam vets - there's a brotherhood.

I understand that a lot of other actors don't have a choice. They have to eat so they need to work and they'll do films that they're not so proud of. But I've been fortunate enough to be given a second wind, so I try to pick projects I know will provide the audience the kind of escapism they want from me.

Through failure, I found different ways to reverse my problems and get into the mainstream of Hollywood.

I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River.

Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older.