One of the views of the [actor's] job is that whatever age you are, there's a role that's about who you are and where you are. There are parts for that age that you can bring things to.

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.

As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers.

Every person under the sound of my voice is a soldier. You are either fighting for your freedom or betraying the fight for freedom or enlisted in the army to deny somebody else freedom.

It is the touch of a lover's arms that I so desperately crave, not the memories of a love no longer mine.

I don't wish that I didn't have the screaming girls.

I'd like to be the ambassador to the Bahamas.

When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.

Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.

Beware the person who is on a hot streak.

If they're [his clients] not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.

Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired.