I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can.
The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.
There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.
The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.
J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.
I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
To me, success is choice and opportunity.
I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
'Years of Living Dangerously' is a wonderful opportunity to reach a lot of people with the story and importance of climate change in our lives; in recent history, there's no bigger threat to the quality of human life than what is taking place right now in respect of climate change.
Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
I've never wanted to be the boss.
I don't do celebrity endorsements. My work with Conservation International is a good use of whatever celebrity I might have to draw attention to important problems. I have the same responsibility as everyone to reduce consumption and to teach children to respect the environment.
I want to go back to the Pantanal in Brazil. I've never been to sub-Saharan Africa. I'd like to take my Caravan over there and do a flying safari. I've never flown to Alaska.
I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.
If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.
I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.
It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.
My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.
If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.
It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
I'm not a poster boy for Conservation International. I'm a working member of the board.