It's very cool to be able to say that my first real film was 'Footloose' and my second film I got to star alongside Tom Cruise and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I don't do it, it plagues me.
I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.
The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.
I think there are so many phenomenal runners. I grew up watching Cathy Freeman, Kelly Holmes, and Michael Johnson, so I'd say they are my favourites.
They say cats have nine lives. I've had 12 already and I don't know how many more I'll have.
That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point.
Revenge is a caustic thing. I say, Breathe in, breathe deeply, let it go.
I am really cautious about what I say and do.
I'm here to fight for the re-education of what celebrity is: to say, 'Yes, we are celebrities, but yes, we're also innovators. We're also inventors. We're also thoughtful.'
And people say it all the time: 'You're a celebrity.' No, I'm an actor. I'm a producer. I'm a director. I'm a toad. I'm roadkill. I'm anything but a celebrity.
There's only so much you can say about celebrity, obviously.
I was forced to say, 'I will not censor the Internet.' But I was never convinced.
There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years.
I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.
I have had more honors than I've deserved and more rewards than I expected. It can be tempting just to say, 'Well, I'm going to retire.' But what would I do then? Sit in a chair and watch TV? Don't let fulfillment throw away your tomorrow.
I didn't say I'm walking away. I said I was stepping down as chairman. I won't walk away. I'll be carried away.
When I'm stirring a saucepan, I don't say to myself, 'Now the chancellor is stirring a saucepan.'
I'm not going to say, I'm an actor and I'm changing the world. Who cares?
He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when!'
