Learning patience was not an easy lesson.

I don't know if likeable, pleasant characters have enough conflict for me to want to do them. I admire those people, but I've never been that kind of screen presence who can do nothing. I need to do something.

My mother is Bermudan, so I had a lot of memories when I was a kid, used to go down to Bermuda a lot.

Wall Street' was a very important movie for me in terms of my career. I won an Oscar, and then the film 'Fatal Attraction' came right after it.

Unstructured play gives kids the space they need to tinker and take risks - both vital for the budding entrepreneur.

To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that.

My whole career, when I was in Croatia, people questioned me, saying I wouldn't make it, that I wasn't good enough because I wasn't big and strong.