At First I Thought I

I've Been In The Business Since I Was 16, So I've Had A 14-year Career. I've Always Had Acting In My Blood. Doing This, Whatever It Is, Was Something I Was Drawn To Since My Earliest Memories. Ironically, I Lived In Hollywood, But Never Understood That All It Took Was Getting An Agent And Being Persistent.

We Actually Did A Lot Of Takes On This Movie [j. Edgar Hoover]. I Never Left The Set Wanting More. That's For Sure. I Don't Know. This Was A Very Difficult Character For Me And A Lot Of The Other Actors Here, And At Times We Went And Did 8 Or 9 Or 10 Takes On A Single Day.

I Got Everything I Need Right Here With Me. I Got Air In My Lungs, A Few Blank Sheets Of Paper. I Mean, I Love Waking Up In The Morning Not Knowing What's Gonna Happen Or, Who I'm Gonna Meet, Where I'm Gonna Wind Up. Just The Other Night I Was Sleeping Under A Bridge And Now Here I Am On The Grandest Ship In The World Having Champagne With You Fine People. I Figure Life's A Gift And I Don't Intend On Wasting It. You Don't Know What Hand You're Gonna Get Dealt Next. You Learn To Take Life As It Comes At You... To Make Each Day Count.

We [ With Russel Crowe] Had An Arabic Coach There [ In The Body Of Lies] That Was Really Helpful, Because It Was More So Than Any Accent. You Have To Be So Exact, And There's Different Dialects Of Arabic From Country To Country So It Was Really, Really Difficult To Tell You The Truth. And One Of The Hardest Things I've Ever Had To Do Language-wise, Because It Comes From The Throat. It's Different. And Also Learning About The Customs And The Culture And All That, So We Had Advisors For That Sort Of Thing.

I Suppose Playing An Older Man Is A Way Of Preparing Myself For Getting Older.