But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.

I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.

I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

My mother was gentle and warm. She was the sort of person you could really open up to. I was the eldest and her only boy, so I guess I was treated differently. She did bring me up as a Catholic, and at one time I was an altar boy, but I lost my faith, as did my father, when my mother died at 45.

My parents scrimped and saved all their lives, to the point where my mother used a disgusting old oven mitt that was stained and partly patched together with a skirt I made in seventh grade.

What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life.

When you see someone you love with somebody else, your heart kind of falls to the ground.