In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed singing the song.

Until you become a parent, you can't begin to discover your capacity for strength, love and fatigue.

My eyebrows make a more profound impact on [other] people than they do on me... I just let 'em grow.

There have been makeup artists who've asked if my eyebrows are real.

If you are sure that you are about to fail, then this strange and serene calmness can come over you or the most abject fear and panic and feeling of helplessness.

My family were broadminded enough to support me when I wanted to pursue a life in the theatre.

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

To stay on the map, you've got to keep showing up.

I love playing a dad. It's hard to find family dramas that are genuinely funny.

Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.

I made my Broadway debut in the revival of Hair and followed it up with the bus and truck tour of Grease.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.

South Korea are pushing for a stronger way to isolate and punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test.

Nothing can convince me that people are at one with their work unless they're joyous about it.

Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees.

When combined with information and communication technologies, microcredit can unleash new opportunities for the world's poorest entrepreneurs and thereby revitalize the village economies they serve.

Forbes has championed entrepreneurism since its founding.

I really thought that I'd be doing Shakespeare, honest to God. I did not foresee the whole action television thing. That was God's joke.

Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.