Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there's less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what's the fun in eating anything you want to?

If you're funny, if there's something that makes you laugh, then every day's going to be okay.

When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.

'Forrest Gump' was great, it was fabulous. It lasted much longer than anybody thought, and brought me a degree of attention that no human being on the face of the planet deserves.

Dear God, thank you for my life. I forgot how big and wonderful it is.

As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.

For some people, I will be Forrest Gump for the rest of my life. But that's OK; that's a good thing.