It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.

When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was rail thin, so it's not like I was a traditional Santa Claus even then. I had a square stomach; that was the shape of the sofa cushion that I had stuffed into my pants.

I've worked with people who are much further to the left than I am and much further to the right than I am. At the end of the day, who gives a ... . Good for you. This is America. Vote your conscience.

I don't think anybody's mind's gonna be changed.

I was never intimidated by change. I was like an army brat who had lived all around the world.

The same way that I know that I'll never do a movie as good or as celebrated as 'Forrest Gump,' I know that I'll never do a movie as bad as 'Bonfire of the Vanities.'

I view my wife as my lover, and we have a bond that goes beyond words like wife or girlfriend or mother.