If not for John Adams leading a revolution against Great Britain...This would be the BAFTAs.

The pleasure of working with somebody who's an actor is they don't waste time with stuff that doesn't matter.

The easiest thing to do is to rag on the media, because it isn't doing a very good job right now. It is so much easier to profit from celebrating the worst aspects of ourselves. Acting strikes me as the antithesis of that. We can examine the worst aspects of ourselves, but we don't have to celebrate them.

Even the simplest choice can make a jaw-dropping difference in our world.

If I have no connection with the character, then it's all fake - it's just blah, blah, blah.

My son is a gentleman and a professional who is pursuing something difficult. Yet the only thing he has ever asked me for is advice - never favors. He has just said, "What do you think I should do, Dad?" It's extraordinary to me that my son would listen to and have faith in whatever wisdom I can offer.

A lot of people would flee from what they think is award-show cheesiness, and I don't. I often joke that my speeches are very personal moments that play themselves out in front of billions of people.