Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.
I have a remarkably normal life.
The 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people think of me.
Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.
Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul.
I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.
That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me.
I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm accepting.
But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together.
I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.
I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.
Always be available to your kids. Because if you say, 'Give me five minutes, give me ten minutes,' it'll be 15, it'll be 20. And then when you get there, the shine will have worn off whatever it is they wanted to share with you.
Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.
Tracy is more a help to me than I am to her.
I'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time.
In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings.
