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People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that.

If I succeed in business but fail as a father, then I've failed.

I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.'

I've been the type of father who tries desperately to be perfect but doesn't succeed all the time.

I wasn't against becoming a dad: I'd had a good childhood, as childhoods go, and as role models, my imperfect parents were as good as or better than most.

Was I a successful father? Maybe not. Was I a successful husband? Probably not. Was I a successful actor? Probably not.

Fatherhood didn't change me in the beginning very much.

My first failure was to be born a child not wanted by his father or mother, as they parted shortly after I was born.