You know there's nothing like seeing the smile on my kids' faces. Laughing together. Playing. It's the best.

I do love science fiction but it's not really a genre unto itself it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.

I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother my aunt my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

I love playing football being out on the pitch with a ball and I will be a little sad when that ends.

I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

I'm sick of playing romantic leads.

When you're playing a romantic version of a real person you're playing a version of the truth.

And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes.

The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing but it was a success.