My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.

I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.

The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go to Hawaii. There don't seem to be any takers on that one!

When we work to end childhood hunger, we are giving our love to kids who need it so much they will never ask for it.

I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.

Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.

And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother's instigation. So I owe him for that.

Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

Not every single way of saying the right thing is right.

Leadership is solving problems.

If it takes me 10 years to be the musician I want to be, great.

What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Nobody wants to remain poor. Those who are poor want to move away from poverty. That is why, all our programmes must be for the poor. All our schemes must serve the poor.

Please tell me you're Republicans.

Success to me does not mean money.