The worst piece of advice I've gotten in my whole career is from somebody who said, Remember, it's all about likeability.

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.

Sometimes you fail

The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were fading more and more every day.

I believe in God and immortality.

Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.

Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote.

For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.

And I love shooting football.

It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.

Government has become a machine that runs only when gold coins are inserted.

As your reputation gets bigger, the gaps and chances to go through them get smaller.