I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods.

I can't control how people are going to react. I try not to worry about what I can't control.

Life is hard for everyone. That's why there's such a nice reward at the end of it.

I think there's a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands - which is where my family is from - in Ireland.

I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved.

I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.

I had to bring myself back down to being a normal person again.

I'd wear clogs, short pants and ladies' bracelets. I created this aura for myself.

Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.

There's certainly more work for me in TV these days.

I don't get any parts I don't get offered. There are lots of great things out there I would like to do that I don't get offered.

Every living object has to change every moment just to live.

I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.

To go to the Oscars for 'Moneyball' - that was pretty amazing.

All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.

You're meant to have an unhappy childhood to be a writer, but there's a lot to be said for a very happy one that just let's you get on with it.

Health is already a dominant sector in most societies and the one most guaranteed to grow.

Even many of the teenagers who feel confident on navigating the web simply don't have the skills needed to 'write and create' digital tools, not simply consume them.

You can change. And you can be an agent of change.

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.