I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.
But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.
I have friends who have daughters and there's times I think I'm glad I have boys instead of girls.
Young people were once considered relatively safe from HIV/AIDS. Today, their lives and futures are at risk throughout the world because of this disease. I believe it is young people throughout the world who offer us the greatest hope for defeating this deadly pandemic.
Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don't look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist's soul, my actor's soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man.
But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines.
It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.
I don't think I'm funny.
The whole awards thing is great. Why? Because the Golden Globes, the Academy Awards, they put a focus on the industry, and that focus translates into people buying tickets to see movies or download films, legitimately download them. And it keeps us all at work. So I'm a big fan of award shows.
I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.
Recovering alcoholic guys wake up in the morning, and they have to think of a reason to get up, and then, once they're up, to not have a drink. It's like all these little heroic battles they have that they fight with and against every day of their lives.
It's an ongoing joy being a dad.
I don't do my own stunts, but I do my own fighting. I don't consider fighting to be a stunt.
It is fun to explore these kick-butt characters.
I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.
If I get rejected for a part, I pick myself up and say, 'OK, not today, maybe tomorrow I'll get this other part or something.'
But, you know, sex is controversial, it just is and it always will be.
When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem.
I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.
I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.
Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other.
I always wanted to be a cowboy, and Jedi Knights are basically cowboys in space, right?
...Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception.
I love doing my own stunts but it's hard.
I think if you're the son or daughter of successful actors and actresses, it's a double pressure. More is expected of you.
