That is the responsibility of the artist, of the actor, to inhabit these roles and put on somebody else's shoes. It's the responsibility and the gift of what it is I get the opportunity to do.

Work is my hobby, staying sober is my job.

I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.

I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.

After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.

If you can help guide somebody through a challenging moment because you've been there, that ends up becoming a great gift.

I'm trying not to put myself into anything I'm not 100 percent confident about.

My mom put me in a Pampers commercial on TV.

As you get older you learn some balance and mediation in your life - that's where I am right now. I feel pretty comfortable about things.

I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.

The extreme always seems to make an impression.

It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.

By spending love, you increase the value of your life.

What would the world be like if men never ruled again?

It's beautiful when you realise how kind, tender, warm and big-hearted a person is that has suffered too much for their own good.

A Queen track has those big, thick, block harmonies.

I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.

D'ye ken that the only time I am without pain is in your bed, Sassenach? When I take ye, when I lie in your arms-my wounds are healed, then, my scars forgotten.

What I say is: There is nothing that God is not. So when you ask me what God is for me, I find myself wanting to say: Everything. Everything that is, that ever was, that ever will be.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.