It sounds like you wanted to maintain your integrity. I just wanted to still be human at the end of the day. That's why you're an actor - because you love humanity. I keep digging into every one of these characters that I come across or watch, in hopes of finding myself. You find a little piece of you that you were just unaware of before.

Since you also dig into history, are you going to the King Tut exhibit at the Franklin Institute? Yes, I'm going immediately. You've got to remember that the Franklin Mint is down there, too, and I have a son who absolutely loves money. Money, coins, and gold. He's asked me to get him a gold bullion one day. He wants a big one.

And what did you tell him? I said, "Okay, why not? I'll work at it."

How many children do you have? I have one son [Hunter] and two daughters [Heaven and Aubrey]. They live only a couple of minutes away, with their mom. They're nine, 11, and 13 right now. It's nice to take them through places [like] where Thomas Paine had his influential pamphlet "Common Sense," which reflected the philosophy in the Declaration of Independence. It's nice to be in the place where the Declaration of Independence was written and ratified, where it truly gives a new meaning to the Fourth of July. Just to see the history there and to be a part of it and to hear, breathe, and smell all the things that took place … I think a lot of those waves of inspiration are still floating about in Philadelphia.