I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.

My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot but it can't access the hidden places.

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself and your imagination and experience but actually in the end you're not playing yourself.

Parents it seems have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession my academic education is subnormal.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people unable to go to school were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.