I have to say. I kind of love all that stuff - those physical challenges. I guess there will come a time when I'll get sick of it but at this stage, I just like it all.

Dancing with Kate Beckinsale made me very excited.

My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doing.

I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity.

This is an area you always need to address when you're dealing with Dracula is the fact that there is something kind of attractive in his darkness - which there isn't in other horror characters.

Men die:and they are not happy.

As I get older, I want to do more films for kids because they're the best audience around. Just putting a smile on a kid's face is the best thing.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled

There have been times in my life when I have felt I was lonely, but I don't think you want to live your life in order to mitigate against loneliness.

All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting.

[The Outsiders] was very competitive, in the best possible way. Full of love, full of companionship and fellowship, pranks and practical jokes and ball-busting.

Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition.

I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over The Onion or Calvin and Hobbes. That was considered completely normal.

Work eight hours a day for a living and many more hours a day making movies and you'll work all your life to be a success overnight.