I thought 'Moulin Rouge' was inspirational, and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' I loved.

I know what it's like to be famous. It's good money and it's great fun. A real kick in the pants. People wave at you and smile at you. You get great tables in restaurants. They send you gifts - beautiful clothes and cars.

The word 'star' doesn't mean an awful lot to me. 'Good actor' and having the respect of one's peers means more.

I love the ukulele. It's got a beautiful, melodic tone to it. There's something innocent and romantic, and it's just a grand instrument to play.

I am the actor that I am. I do what I do. I've been a 'leading man' playing romantic leads for a long time now.

Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience.

I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.

You want to believe in leaders, really believe in leaders. You want what they are saying to be truthful, and you want to trust them.

People should be allowed to marry, and gay marriage should be out there. If a man or a woman has a good partner and they love each other with their heart and soul, let them marry. I am very much for gay marriage.

I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.

You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father.

I've been identified with James Bond or Thomas Crown for so long; suave, elegant, sophisticated men in suits. it's like you've been giving the same performance for 20 years.

The spy genre is something which, as a fan of movies, a movie geek myself, I just love that cinematic joy that they bring.

Be good to people, be kind to people, show up, read the lines, hit the mark, and go home.

I'm very confident that Nick Hornby always gets it right as a writer. He has the vernacular and passion. He is adroit and dry, and balances humor with the humanity of life.

I use so much of myself in everything I do. I think every actor does because you have no one else to go to but yourself and your own imagination.

I'm an artist, so I love the graphic design of Instagram.

Must whales and dolphins be subjected to deafening noise that will cause more than 3.5 million instances of temporary and/or permanent hearing loss? For species that depend on hearing for survival - to find food, migrate, and communicate - any hearing loss could be catastrophic. As one scientist noted, a deaf whale is a dead whale.