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My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists.

My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it.

My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles.

I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.

If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.

I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.

I did well as an actor in Australia, and then Paramount invited me over... to have a look at me.

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

What did the paparazzi do to Diana? They chased her and they killed her.

I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.

A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

I did not get Botox because you wouldn't see any expression in my face. Hopefully it has paid off.

The Doors movie is a pack of lies. It did not make money. You want to make money in America? Tell the truth.

The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator.

Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

I did side planks for my obliques, which are one of my trouble areas. And traditional planks tone your back so you don't have that little bit of fat hanging over your bra. Ugh!

I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over again, I would have booked myself on the road for at least a year.

I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

Other kids did drugs; I did crafts. I never knew where I fit in.

At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.

But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand.

We would have to invent the U.N. if we did not have it, which is not an original thought.

And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.

I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.

If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.

How did this or that change my music? The only time I have to think about it is when an interviewer asks me that.