Family is not an important thing, it's everything.
Everybody in the world knew I was before I knew who I was.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.
I don't want people to kick my ass, I just want to get to a point where they can't kick it.
I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.
I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.
I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.
I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me.
I'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time.
After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.
Tracy is more a help to me than I am to her.
The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.
The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.
The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you're cute', I'll say thank you, but I appreciate it much more when the other one says 'you make me laugh so much'.