I'm more like my father personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well - obviously because my mom and my dad get along so well.

As regards parents I should like to see them as highly educated as possible and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

For me growing up the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door through my dad.

Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age making them less reactive and more patient and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started.

One of my grandfathers actually having gone out there as a minister decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.

At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.

It's ironic that at age 32 at probably the greatest moment of my career with The Godfather having such an enormous success I wasn't even aware of it because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age he wanted to be an Episcopal priest because he so admired his priest a black man from someplace called Haiti.

Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day you're dealing with the mind of a child so it opens up that childishness in you again.

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

One of the tough things about being an actor probably the hardest thing is getting your foot in the door and my father handled that for me at a very early age.

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.