Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

If you want to give me a good faceful for one of my political positions, I can take it.

The more you are positive and say, 'I want to have a good life,' the more you build that reality for yourself by creating the life that you want.

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.

Life flies by, and it's easy to get lost in the blur. In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, it's 'What do I want to do?' In your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what's ahead but rather sitting in the grey area - being OK with where you are.

Any actor wants to do interesting roles, different roles. It's not all that much fun to do the same thing over and over again.