I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me.
You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.
I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.
When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.
I don't think I ever take huge risks, though I'm not scared of doing so.
I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?'
I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived.
I wait and take on projects that I think can work.
I'm a pretty convenient foil for a lot of people.
Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.
I like American history.
I want to live forever, and I know I won't. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm only afraid of one thing: not being able to raise my kids.
I like four-hour movies.
When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors.
Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.
I was sucked into this vortex of a very conservative upbringing.
I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.
We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.
I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.