My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria just waiting to burst out.

I don't do the whole L.A. nightlife thing.

When you look at all the miracles attributed to Jesus, they're all about change.

Acting itself is quite scary. Some people say that actors are show-offs, very egotistical and all that kind of stuff, but it is quite scary.

I suppose I'm something of an eccentric dresser.

I'm not a Tony Blair impersonator.

No matter how difficult things are, and no matter how much grief and loss there is, you can turn it into something positive.

I love being able to play as many different characters, in as many different worlds as I possibly can. That's what I really enjoy.

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

I am prone to get carried away thinking about creative projects.

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

I can only display what I've been nurtured with, which is this worldview which has become my view. If I displayed anything different from it in my work, I wouldn't deserve this heritage.

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

All children need their fathers, but boys especially need fathers to teach them how to be men.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

The central issue is never strategy, structure, culture, or systems. The core of the matter is always about changing the behavior of people.

You make your own luck. Luck is the residue of design.

Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.

How well that human potential has been fulfilled over the years by people with a deep and abiding connection to Pennsylvania.