I found my niche as a character actor and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.
Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death leaving only what is truly important.
If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.
I feel like I've never had a home you know? I feel related to the country to this country and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place a place where you can reckon with yourself.
In an age of incompetence I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
If you're trying to achieve there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it go through it or work around it.
Final Destination was the closest thing I've done to a teen movie but it certainly had an edge to it.
I'm doing 'Les Miserables' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like 'Come on let's do a moviemusical.'
I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards but that's not the case. Sure my parents were generous; I got a nice car at 16 but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.
I've always said that one night I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere I'm standing on grass and it's raining and I'm with the person I love and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to.
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.
What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth.
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that you know. I'm one of those people.
My mother enjoyed old age and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.
If you're trying to achieve there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it go through it or work around it.
Do you know that other than my father I've never had a man take care of me?
At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people I've found don't get very far.
I have not failed. I've just found 10000 ways that won't work.
Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy crazy crazy. I'm never going to say I wouldn't do it again but I have to make sure it's love and not settling for the 'I have to do this by a certain age' which is kind of what I did.
Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like until you buy the vinyl record you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
I lost my sense of trust honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.
I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party and I'm thinking 'Hey I've still got it.'
So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance.
My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
I've been in this business for a long time at my age I've just turned 30 and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well my kids are happy and healthy in schools we've both been able to buy a house for our parents respectively in the places they live.
I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to keep in tiptop shape. There's no magic bullet.
I'm glad now at age 66 that I never used alcohol or tobacco I've buried a lot of friends who used tobacco or alcohol.
I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.
I've never been Romeo who meets a girl and falls for her immediately. It's been a much slower process for me each time I've gone into a relationship.
What I've enjoyed most though is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!
I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.
You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.
I just invent then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
In my role as Wikileaks editor I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that and keep our sources safe we have had to spread assets encrypt everything and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions.
I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage children and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted which is privacy and non-harassment.
Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be well-rounded. Also the people I met at the university most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.
From as long as literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns word jokes I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.
I'm honest about the journey I've been on so I definitely don't take dating lightly anymore.
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
Throughout my life my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to.
No matter where I've been overseas the food stinks except in Italy.
Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter and I hit that awhile ago.
I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.
Of all the roles I've played none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
In both business and personal life I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages cultures scenery food and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.
I think it's brought the world a lot closer together and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then again television at its best is magnificent.
Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.
If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.
We tend to think of age only in time but I don't think it has much to do with time at all; there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.
I figure that if the children are alive when I get home I've done my job.
Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.
No but way before that I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah that was an amazing chance. You know at my age to be able to do a music dance video very unusual.
And in my own life in my own small way I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.
I went to my son's graduation this weekend and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.
Growing up I've enjoyed hunting with my father.
It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing why would I do that? I ain't got time for this just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried.
My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well you gotta have a place to park the car.'
In my older age I've learned to take things slower because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.
But to personally satisfy my own adrenalin needs I've been racing cars a little bit which has been fun.
He has the finest fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30; if I continue after this Olympics and come back in 2016 I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.
I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades rather than whether someone's 42 or 47 you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.
We're just into toys whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the Palm Pilot right here with me I've got the world's smallest phone. Maybe it's just because I'm still a big little kid and I just love toys you know?
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
Home life's great man. The kids are great happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.
I am as I've said merely competent. But in an age of incompetence that makes me extraordinary.
It's my firm intention to whop cancer into submission and I truly believe I've given myself the best start possible by radically overhauling my diet and by staying true to my motto which is: Don't worry be happy feel good. The first thing I did when I was diagnosed was to turn vegan.
If you start writing to an audience you're talking down to them. I've never written for any age group I just write character. If you can capture that you'll get the audiences and it will be a wide range as it is for 'Twilight' it's a pretty wide range.
I've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen well since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.
See what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car aren't you? Well I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.
As I've said many times the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.
I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.
I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my garage. I've never opened them. It'll be fun one day when Hazel is taller. She can play dress-up with her friends.
I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.
I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on 'Lassie' I was comfortable around the dog where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie.
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
No I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.
I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.