I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

Everybody in the world knew I was before I knew who I was.

You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him.

I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.

I don't want people to kick my ass, I just want to get to a point where they can't kick it.

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

Tracy is more a help to me than I am to her.

If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it.

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face.

Family is not an important thing, it's everything.

I'm kind of private and I keep things inside a lot, but it's been so wonderful to realize that people care about you in a very deep way and that there is some bond between an actor and his audience. I don't even know how to describe that feeling.

You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them.

I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.

Pain is temporary, film is forever.

I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings.

The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you're cute', I'll say thank you, but I appreciate it much more when the other one says 'you make me laugh so much'.

I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me.

What other people think about me is not my business.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

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.

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked.

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.

The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.

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.

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.

As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.

As much as Parkinson's is about movement, the end stage is being frozen. So the more I let that happen, the more I'm gonna be stuck within that and unable to reverse it.

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.

By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts.

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

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.

Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.

Everybody in the world knew who I was before I knew who I was.

Family is not an important thing. It's everything.

Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.

I can't always control my body the way I want to, and I can't control when I feel good or when I don't. I can control how clear my mind is. And I can control how willing I am to step up if somebody needs 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.

I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded.

I discovered that I was part of a Parkinson's community with similar experiences and similar questions that I'd been dealing with alone.

I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary.

I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities.