I was not a very fearful kid, really.

You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.

I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.

It's important to me that everyone is treated with respect.

I always want my options to be open.

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

You won't find a better young actor than Jaeden Lieberher. I ended up having one of the best times with him, really. Going to work with him every day was a treat.

The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe.

I don't think you necessarily identify and believe in the motifs of the character, but you have to want to play it and want to commit to the lines.

A marriage based only on physical attraction or romantic emotions is almost certainly doomed to failure right from the start.

I have a rendezvous with death... I will not fail that rendezvous

There should be as much difference between the worldling and the Christian, as between hell and heaven, between destruction and eternal life.

My partner and I were going to renew our vowels, but the consonants revolted.

There must be a way to get more of these in me faster, thought the inventor of pea soup as he sat eating peas.

Traditionally vice presidential debates don't move the needle one way or the other. They have largely been irrelevant and inconsequential.

Practice mediation and concentration exercises, and begin to think more about regaining your sensitivity by avoiding draining situations. Not because of fear but because of intelligence.

I like to have the impression that whatever is happening is true.

Let's give the historians something to write about

I think there's a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.