Discovering Rome on my scooter with my wife when we first met.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2014 source ↗
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What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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When my friends and I were making Mean Streets, 1973.
My first payday as a professional actor, knowing this was the beginning of the rest of my life, and the day my daughter told me I wasn’t the worst dad in the world.
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When I am playing rugby.
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How doesn’t matter—it’s when that matters. When I’m ready!
Punctuality (outside of work, of course).
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