receive their financial means, equipment, and also their training and that's the main cause of the terrorist activities. and b, he's saying because the more we do the civilian casualty there is possibility that we'll lose the support of our people and also the opposition forces may take advantage of that. and that ultimately will undermine our main objectives, our main afghan government and also international coalition forces. so in order to avoid that, he's focusing more on telling that to our partners, that the more we can we should avoid doing that. >> all right. ambassador hakimi, thank you so much for joining us. >> that does it for us tonight. thank you for joining us "in the arena." good night from new york. "piers morgan tonight" starts

"piers morgan tonight" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com only one man could play everything from the hero of "footloose" to the super villain of "x-men: first class." >> hey, piers, it's me. >> kevin bacon is an actor's actor. with more than 50 films to his credit. everybody knows somebody who's worked with him. and tonight i challenge him to a round of six degrees of kevin bacon. >> piers, i am kevin bacon. i can't lose. >> well, it's my show, mate. so we'll see, won't we? and the stars of what some call "sex and the city" for men. >> this is going to be a nightmare. i knew we should have done "the view." >> ray romano, andre brouwer, and scott bakula. they really are "men of a certain age." this is "piers morgan tonight."

if you see more than a handful of hollywood movies since the '80s then you'll already know who my next guest is. kevin bacon's starred in 50 films and the latest is this summer's blockbuster, "x-men: first class." and kevin joins me now. congratulations on "x-men." smash hit as they all have been. matthew vaughn, who was involved with it very closely, is a friend of mine. i think it's an amazing extension of the franchise. how did you find it? >> he just crushed it, matthew. he really did. i thought it was really, really well done. it's one of those ones where you sit down and he had showed me a couple of scenes, but there was so much of the movie that i didn't really know about. you know, either i wasn't in it or it was effects-driven. so it was a real surprise to me. and i was thrilled. i got chills. >> i'm going to play a little clip from it now. you in the "x-men." >> good evening.

my name's sebastian shaw. and i am not here to hurt you. friends, there's a revolution coming when mankind discovers who we are, what we can do. each of us will face a choice -- be enslaved or rise up to rule. choose freely, but know that if you are not with us then by definition you are against us. so you can stay and fight for the people who hate and fear you or you can join me and live like kings. and queens. >> there's a lot of great young talent in this film. >> absolutely. >> i was reading. jennifer lawrence, zoe kravitz, nicholas holt, jeremy jones, james mcavoy. you're the granddad, kevin. >> every morning they would gather around at my feet, and i would take questions.

no, you know, i was -- it was really fun working with them. it was very energizing. they were great, not only extremely talented bunch of young actors but also a lot of fun and really fun to hang out with. >> a great quote about career changes in the movies, doing something outside your wheelhouse is what keeps you alive as a creative person. and this is definitely outside your normal wheelhouse, i would say. >> well, i'd never played a billionaire mutant before, if that's what you mean. it's my first one. >> did you enjoy it? >> i did, yeah. it was great. it was great. i mean, certainly the idea of having a power, you know, is fantastic. but the thing that i really enjoyed and the thing about the x-men franchise in general is that all these characters without their mutations are very, very human. so in order to approach it i really had to approach it in terms of who the man was, not

who the mutant was. >> you play a billionaire meg lo maniac. i would argue that almost every billionaire i've met is a megalomaniac. have you ever met one who isn't? >> no. but i haven't met a lot of them, actually. i met a couple, i guess. let's see. maybe a couple. you know, i think one of the keys i found when i did the research back in the marvel comic books -- because luckily, they give you stacks and stacks, they give you everything that was ever written about your guy ever. is that he's very much a self-made man. and he's very -- he's very like american, this guy.

he really is a product of the american dream. and then you add to that this insane desire for power. he wants his power to have power, and he wants his money to have money. and that's who he is. >> if you had your time again, given you've been exposed to all of these things at the time, would you prefer to be rich, famous, or powerful? forget the acting for a moment. >> well, now when you say powerful, what do you mean by that? >> as in somebody who's not necessarily in the entertainment game, is not famous as a celebrity, but has real power. >> i would say that probably a big part of what drove me into this, drove me into it initially, was fame. >> you're very unusual. i'd say 95% of all the actors i've had in front of me have completely lied when i asked them about that. >> and they said i don't want any of that? >> they go on about how awful fame is and they moan away about it all. >> i completely disagree. >> i've seen you be on this a few times, saying you know, what everybody wants to be famous, right? >> not everybody. but actors do. i think actors want to be famous. and the other thing people will never say about fame is fame is 95% good. like all day long people are pretty nice to me. you know, they say how are you doing, kevin -- you know, or people will come up on my way into your studio tonight a very nice lady stopped and said, "i love you." how often does that happen? that just all day long -- >> it doesn't happen to me very often, i can tell you. >> well, you know -- >> it is true, isn't it? i just know from my experience i would say 98% of the people that

come up to you are just very friendly. >> it's also an acknowledgment that what you're doing is, you know, working. and that's what i've -- you know, from the time i was a little kid i just worked as hard as i could to get here. so i'm not going to get here now and go oh, please, i don't want to be famous. >> you were described to me as the -- one of the best actors who's never yet won an oscar. and you yourself have described the oscar season as the bitter season. >> it's one of those quotes that i really should take back. >> it's a great quote. >> if you can go back and take it back. >> no, i like it because it's honest. it's exactly how i'd be feeling, if i'd made 50 films of the quality you have and i still hadn't had my moment, seeing some of the clowns that walk away with goes guys, it's got to get to you, doesn't it? >> here's the thing. i don't act for statues. i really don't. the great thing about, you know, winning an award is that it creates opportunities. there's two things that create opportunities. one is being involved with something that makes money. and the other is winning awards. and the reason that winning the awards creates the opportunities is it gives the people who are

selling the picture the opportunity to make more money. >> of course. >> so in that way it would be nice. >> but in the same way that most actors, we've both agreed on this, like the fame that comes from their job, isn't the statue the ultimate kind of valediction of your art? isn't that the moment? don't you sit there at night sometimes on your own with a glass of wine thinking about what you would say if they announced the words, "best actor, kevin bacon"? be honest. >> i'll let you know when i get there. i mean, i don't know if it is. i won't know until i get there. it certainly would be better than not having one. but you know, i don't know. >> talking of vainglorious billionaire megalomaniacs, you had a very bad experience with a real one, bernie madoff. you and your wife lost a lot of money. what are your feelings about him?

there's obviously a movie that's now being planned starring robert de niro. you may be in this, i'm hearing. is that a joke? >> i was kidding. i was so kidding about that. >> playing yourself as a victim. >> the fact that anyone would have taken that as a serious -- >> you'd bring a bit of raw, visceral reality to this. >> well, first of all, it would be hard to write that scene since i never met him. so i don't really know how the scene would play out in the film. >> how did you get -- >> just kidding about that. >> how did you get caught up in the whole madoff thing? >> you know, it was recommended that we put, you know, some money with him. and we did. >> have you said how much? >> no. but see, the how much is a little different. because there's the how much which was what you thought it was at the time when it all disappeared. but that didn't really exist, right? that was just -- >> it was never real money. >> it was never real money, yeah. >> i mean, at the absolute peak of your time with madoff how much did you think you had? >> i'd rather not say. it was a lot of dough.

>> millions of dollars? >> yeah, it was most of our money -- it was most of our savings. you know, our retirement. >> without giving the amount, what was the percentage of your wealth? that was committed to this. >> wow. that's a good question. i'd have to sort of think about that because you know, we had -- we had other stuff. you know, we had an apartment to live in and stuff like that. but the thing is -- >> in terms of cash it was most of it. >> yeah, most of it. >> it's horrendous, isn't it? >> it wasn't good. but you know, we looked at each other and we said, we can get through this together. and luckily, my wife is on a very successful television show at the time. so that was a big help. and -- >> what was the moment you knew that this was all going belly up? >> i got a call, you know. she called me or i called her. and you know, it was wow. there it goes. whoa. >> i mean literally.

>> yeah. >> out the window. >> yeah. >> the whole thing was a scam. >> yeah. >> did you get any money back at all? >> yeah. well, so far we have gotten the -- there was something called sippic. so we got that money back. but they're saying they may be paying more back. we'll see. >> in terms of a life re-alignment, what did it do to you and your wife and as a family, do you think, in terms of how you now look at life? >> well, i think that it's a good way to think about what you have to be grateful for. that's a very important part of it. because when you turn around and you go, you know, it's a cliche, but you go, wow, you know, we're healthy and my family's healthy and we can still work and there's a lot of people, both in that situation and in other situations who are a hell of a lot worse off than we are. so i'd say if anything else, you know, it's gratitude.

>> but looking at a few pictures of you and your wife here, i mean, you've done well, haven't you? >> yeah. she's a knockout. >> was that i great comfort to you when this was all unraveling, that if you were left with nothing you have this amazing wife you've been with all along? >> so we weren't left with nothing. that's the thing. we had everything. >> the real value of life probably isn't in dollars. >> it's not. it's just not. i mean, it's, again, you've heard it a million times, but you know, you can't take it with you. >> we're going to take a short break. when we come back, i want to talk to you more about fame and celebrity and also about your wife because unusually in hollywood, although you might contest this, you've had this incredibly strong marriage when so many have fallen apart. >> okay. [ male announcer ] this...is the network -- a network of possibilities. in here, the planned combination of at&t and t-mobile would deliver our next generation mobile broadband experience to 55 million more americans,

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like a snake. sunning itself on the road. yeah, clay. i met him sometime in june of '62. the masquerade ball. jay took me there. he expressed preferences to me. >> sexual preferences? >> yeah. >> did he pay you for this? >> $20 each time. ain't no secret. that's why i'm in here. >> that's kevin bacon in oliver stone's "jfk." that was the first sighting of a simon cowell haircut. i hadn't realized it until i saw that clip again. that's where he got it from. >> all i needed is the v-neck t-shirt. >> that movie was pivotal really, i think, to the second phase of your career because after "footloose" things dried up weirdly for a while. and then after "jfk" it boomed back up again. what's hollywood like when you go through the dry up process? >> well, it's tough.

i think that the thing that's always been clear to me is i was in it for the long haul, right? so it's like as bad as it ever got i never thought, well, i've got to do something else, you know. and -- >> how bad is it when it goes bad, when you've tasted the real glory? >> there's a great line that martin short has in a movie, he plays my agent, and things aren't -- i'm a director in the movie. things aren't going well. and his character says, "well, frankly, everyone wants to distance themselves from the stench." and that's sort of what it feels like because you know, people, as we were talking about before, really want to be attached to whatever is successful. and i think they're really desperately afraid that a lack of success will somehow rub off on them. so yeah. so it's not pleasant.

but you know, every kind of career, every kind of career, i think, has peaks and valleys. >> they do. but i don't think many have quite the brutality. and that thing about not being near the stench is so true, i think, in hollywood-s if you're hot everybody loves you. >> right. >> but in this town in particular, you made this big decision early on having gone to new york when you were 17, you made this decision, do i go and immerse myself in l.a., in the world where everyone here is in the same game, and you quite deliberately went, no, i'm not going to. even though you realized it may damage your career in certain ways. >> right. >> you were just determined not to live in this. >> yeah. because -- for a couple of things. i mean, you kind of say, well, isn't that so noble and new yorky of you? but i'm kind of sick of that idea. a lot of it was just fear, you know, just afraid of every day being so connected to something that i was so personally invested in. and i felt like i really needed

to get a little bit of distance by going up to new york. plus i love new york and i wanted to raise had i mi kids in new york. >> kevin, i want to talk to you about the kevin bacon phenomenon as it's now being called where basically everyone in hollywood is six degrees away from kevin bacon. and i'm going to show you how we know this is true. >> okay. >> because we've worked out that i am six degrees from kevin bacon. >> only six? >> yes. six degrees. but you're only five degrees away from me. and we're going to show you how this works. >> that's interesting. >> yeah. so let's get the first bit of evidence. this is me and you. so here we have sharon osbourne, who i work with on "america's got talent." she in turn works with leah remini on "the talk." leah is best friends with jennifer lopez, who starred with george clooney in "out of

sight," who worked with brad pitt on "ocean's 11," who was in "sleepers" with kevin bacon. how about that? >> fascinating. hard-hitting journalism. >> but there's a better one on this. this is the five degrees of separation, which is from you to me. >> okay. >> so we start on this one with kevin bacon on the left. you're in "x-men" with zoe kravitz, whose father is lenny kravitz, who starred in "precious" with mariah carey, who is married to nick cannon, who is the most of "america's got talent," on which i am a judge. so we are even closer than you think. just five away there. >> there you go. >> do you take any of this kind of nonsense remotely seriously? >> well, i do take it fairly seriously now because i started something called sixdegrees.org, which is a charitable website. and the idea was kind of to take this brand and i wasn't able to figure out a way that i could get rich on it, so i figured

that maybe there was -- i mean, my concept was that if you really take me out of it, and of course the idea of this connectivity existed before they ever came up with the kevin bacon part of it, you take me out of it, it's sort of a beautiful dwlarksd we all really are connected on this planet and we all basically climbed out of the same swamp and that if you kind of keep that in mind as you go through your day that maybe you'll be less likely to wage war or pollute this planet or whatever. >> do you think it works? >> that idea? >> well, the charitable way that you've done this. do you see evidence that it works, to make people think like that? >> well, i think we have a long way to go in terms of our specific site. i think that again and again and again i do see this idea becoming -- we are getting more and more global. i mean, that's just the way it

is. and i think that the connectivity between people, especially when you look at the internet and really, you know, social networking, social media is all about connectivity, right? that's what it is. and i think that we have to kind of embrace that because that's where we're going. >> we'll get in a short break again. i want to come back to you and talk to you -- i was going to talk about next, which is your marriage. because i'm fascinated on your views on how you keep a marriage successful in a business that's so ruinous for the genre. >> okay. these sweet honey clustery things have fiber?

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certificate of authenticity. and best of all, kevin bacon will personally deliver it right to your doorstep. >> it's kevin bacon. >> pretty cool, right? >> yeah. >> let's do it. >> that was kevin bacon on funny or die. and kevin's back with me now. you and your wife, kyra, have been together 22 years. and you memorably said the secret of this is you've got to keep the fights clean and the sex dirty. >> another thing i never should have said. >> but you should have said it. these are great lines. >> it comes back to bite you every time. >> does it? isn't that so true, that line, though? >> yeah. i think it kind of is. i'll tell you, honestly, people ask a lot about how that -- how we keep it together. and you know, i mean, i sort of thought, well, maybe i could just come up with one line that i could constantly use rather than trying desperately to try to, you know, describe it time and time again. >> how did you meet? >> well, the truth is that i was doing a play down in the village

in -- a real long time ago, and i had a matinee and an evening performance. and during -- after the matinee i went to the deli and i was buying a sandwich. and like a 12-year-old girl came up to me and said, "excuse me, mister. i just saw your play. i thought you were really good." i was like, oh, yeah, thanks, sweetheart. bought my sandwich and left. and that was her. i don't remember it, but she does. >> and how did you then get together? >> well, then years later -- >> years later? >> yeah. many, many years later. >> so you had this amazing little meeting that you don't remember -- >> that i don't remember that she does. i mean, she was 12. yeah. and then probably it was maybe ten years later or something like that we met doing a play -- it was a play that we filmed for pbs called "lemon sky." >> and? how did you -- >> well, i fell in love with her. i had spotted her around manhattan, you know, since then. and i just found her, you know, really very beautiful and sexy and aloof. and i was, you know, just immediately in love with her, and she was immediately put off by me.

>> but had she harbored some weird thought about you since that deli moment? >> no. i think she always -- well, you know, her mother was a big theater fan. and her mother had seen me in a couple of plays because i was doing a lot of theater back there -- in new york back then. and you know, her mother said you should walk this actor, he's a good actor. by the time we met, you know, i'd done a lot of movies already and was, you know, pretty well known. and she -- you know, she -- i don't think she really liked me all that much, either as a person or as an actor. but i just chipped away at it, man. you know, i was just -- i was knocking on that door -- >> did you know she was the one? >> yeah. i did. >> and you were right. i mean, you've been -- >> i was right. inseparable ever since. >> i was right. >> what is the reason why so many show business marriages flounder, do you think?

>> well, i've never actually seen the statistics that there's any more divorce in show business than there is in any other thing. >> there seem to be more. >> there seem to be more because you read about it. but i don't know if that's actually true. i'd love to know if anybody out there knows the answer to that. because i mean, dentists and lawyers, people are getting divorced all the time. marriage is tough. it just doesn't work for a lot of people. >> i would say the one thing that's different about those professions to show business is that in show business so much temptation, which comes not from your natural attraction but from your fame. it's that that's different. how have you managed to resist the allure of the groupie? for lack of a better phrase. >> well, i mean, i don't know. i feel like, you know, i made a commitment to this person and we enjoy spending time together. and i don't want to do anything that's going to threaten that. i mean, you could ask her the same question. how has she managed to avoid it? >> yeah. because you are batting above your strength here. no disrespect. >> no, you're absolutely right. and believe me, i'm very grateful for that every day. >> how would you feel if your

kids wanted to get into the business? >> well, you know, it's weird. we were really so negative about it when they were younger that neither one of them are >> how would you feel if your kids wanted to get into the business? >> well, you know, it's weird. we were really so negative about it when they were younger that neither one of them are interested. they're pretty much on their way to doing what it is that they want to do at this point. it's kind of weird that we were in retrospect. i mean, i think for both of us we were afraid of subjecting our children to a lifetime of scrutiny and rejection. and we were talking before about how, you know, to be an actor you've got to really have a really tough skin because it's really -- it's like if you paint a painting and you put it up there, people will judge your painting and they'll say i don't like that. but when you're an actor, it's like you. it's your face. it's everything. >> it's the way you look.

it's the way you talk. it's the way you move. it's everything. it's so personal. >> it's so personal. that i don't think we really wanted to put our kids through that. you know. >> i've heard you don't ever watch your films. >> i don't. i mean, i watch them once when they come out. but -- >> you never rewatch an old movie? >> no. >> why? >> just there's so much that i feel like i wish i'd done differently that it's kind of like torture. >> really? >> yeah. >> you're such a perfectionist you that just see so many things you wish you'd done in a different way? >> yeah. >> and it's just too much agony, you can't watch it? >> yeah. and also, i describe to people that seeing yourself on camera is like the time when you leave the first outgoing message on your voicemail and you listen back to it and you go, oh, my god, is that what i sound like? oh, give me a gun and i'll shoot myself in the head right now. so you multiply that by like a thousand. and that's what it's like to be 40 foot high on a screen.

and everything about your voice and the way you look, and you know, your hair and your body, the whole package is -- it's just really -- it's really tough. it's really tough to see. i've gotten numb to it after so many movies, you know. but i'd like to have the experience once because i like to know what it is that i did, and then i like to start thinking about the next one. >> what is the one kevin bacon movie, if i forced you to watch again at gunpoint, you would watch? >> ooh. the one movie that i would watch again? i don't know, man. i did a movie called "murder if the first," you know, sometime ago. that one came out pretty good. >> there's a lot of buzz about a new movie you've done. it's called "crazy stupid love" with julianne moore and steve carell, ryan gosling and emma stone. tell me about that one. >> really great fun comedy. i have a very small part but it was a fun part. it's one of those parts where

i'm there but then i'm mentioned a lot. >> is that the dream role for you? >> yeah. >> because then you're just there but no one's going to critique you. >> they just talk about me. >> kevin bacon, thank you very much. >> thanks, man. >> and congrats for "x-men." i look forward to seeing it. coming up, the men in the series being called "sex and the city" for guys. ray romano, andre braugher, and scott bakula. "men of a certain age." in here, the planned combination of at&t and t-mobile would deliver our next generation mobile broadband experience to 55 million more americans, many in small towns and rural communities, giving them a new choice. we'll deliver better service, with thousands of new cell sites... for greater access to all the things you want, whenever you want them. it's the at&t network... and what's possible in here is almost impossible to say. [ lane ] here's the trouble with most anti-wrinkle creams. the cream disappears but your wrinkles don't. ♪

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"men of a certain age" is the series that opens a window onto the secret lives of, well, middle-aged men, and rather hilariously. i've got the stars here with me now. ray romano, andre braugher, and scott bakula. now, nothing, i don't think, could tell the story more of our collective descent into middle age other than to reveal to viewers that for the last ten minutes we have been sitting here talking about golf. >> trying to remember -- >> we've got amnesia. we're talking about golf. it's the classic signs -- >> ogilvy. >> no. no. stop. >> we're trying to remember the name of an american golfer who lost weight, lost his game, put the weight back on, got his game back. and every woman watching right now is about to tune out. i mean, literally. literally. our producer's saying is it calcavecchia? >> every woman wants to know how did he lose the weight? so they're listening. >> tell me about the fact that you've become these poster boys for middle age. i mean, is it what you dreamed of when you were kids?

one day i'll be a middle-aged icon? >> well, you don't -- you're not happy you're middle-aged until, i guess, you're middle-aged because what other choice gouf? >> well, exactly. there's an inevitability about it. it's a weird place you find yourself in. you march down the road and rather than young groupies charging after you there's guys of 50 going, "hey, way to go, boys. you're our kind of guys." >> yeah, you get that all the time, guys coming up saying thanks for putting on a show that we can watch, we love you, it's great. >> it's on too late. >> ray, you've obviously had an iconic comedy role in the way that you've had. what's it like for you making this transformation to something not quite as -- >> by the way, i appreciate you that recognize the comedy in it. but we -- it's a drama as well.

>> yeah. >> and you know, we do -- the comedy is more real. >> let's watch a brief clip from the show. for those who haven't seen it. give them a little insight. >> one thing i will be getting for my birthday. colonoscopy. >> what? >> that's a terrible gift. >> no, my doctor recommended his associate in palm springs. first i was like, no way, i'm not going to drive all that way for that. but he said no, that's the whole point of it. you make a fun thing out of it. like a five-star hotel, spa treatment. yeah, you sneak in a colonoscopy. but you also have a little r&r, too. you know, takes the onus off of it. >> onus, anus. >> i mean, be honest. have any of you three discussed colonoscopies with your friends over a few beers? >> oh, yeah. >> really? >> well, i got that idea because i saw on the -- either letterman or whatever. martin short actually did that with tom hanks and steve martin. they didn't go away. but they played cards. they made a night of it. and then in the morning they got a limo -- they played cards, they took the drink, they played cards all night, they did what they did in the bathroom, and then in the morning the limo came, took them to the colonoscopies. went out to dinner. i said, well, that's got to be a show there. and i haven't talked about it

with my friends, but i've talked, you know -- it's that time where you've got to think about it. >> andre, i mean, you're younger than these guys. >> wait a minute. >> i can see you bristling really at this whole idea that you're their age group. am i right? are you sort of resistant to be tagged with them here? >> well, you know, i mean, in my mind i'm not above, you know, five and twenty and it sort of snuck up on me, this middle-aged idea. >> what's the worst thing about getting middle-aged? >> it's not bad at all. you know what i'm saying? i mean, the body is slowing down. but i think life is getting better and better. >> why? >> well, i think we really appreciate it. i think we understand what's important in life. you know. the sort of ambitions and the superficial thrills of youth are put in their place. >> i liked all the superficial thrills of youth. >> they were great when you're young. when you're young, they're

great. >> the worst thing about getting into your 40s and 50s, you have to awful a sudden stop having superficial thrills or people frown on them. >> well, there are more thrills to be gained. you know what i mean? so i just -- you know, there's a season for things. and the season has changed, and i'm really enjoying it. >> are you the same, scott? or do you see some negatives in the aging process? >> well, my biggest problem is i think that i'm still -- i'm not middle-aged and that i'm 20 years younger. i keep getting into trouble because i'm rushing out and doing things -- >> but isn't it a physical and mental thing? when you look in the mirror -- i don't know about you, but i still see a guy -- when people say to me you're looking your age, i thought you were 55 or something like, that i'm like, what? when i look in the mirror i don't see a guy of my age. and i talk to my friends about it, and they're the same. you don't age as much in the mirror, do you? >> well, you mentally feel it. you know, i feel younger than i look. i'm like -- i'm trying to look in the mirror, but this old guy keeps getting in the way. you know what i mean? but i feel mentally -- emotionally i feel like i'm still, you know, as immature as i was. when i notice the thing and the wrinkles and whatever, it's so odd to me because i say, well,

i'm still a kid, though. how am i old? >> andre talked about you learn about life more so when you get to middle age you can almost appreciate the reality of life. would you agree with that, guys? is that something -- do you learn enough that you start to appreciate what life really is? >> well, you get perspective. and i think you have two ways to go with that perspective. you can look back on your younger years and be regretful and i wish i was back there and i'd give anything to be doing that again. or you can look back and acknowledge that and then -- you know, for me i'm -- i keep pointing forward. i think the best thing that all of us can do is keep pointing forward. and you know, we've learned from a few mistakes here and there. but i'm trying to live each day as -- >> what's been the biggest mistake you've ever made? >> whoa. >> whoa. >> whoa, whoa. >> today. >> today. today.

>> that you're prepared to admit to on national television. >> that i'm prepared to admit to on national television. ray. >> i hope it's a good one because we could use a story idea. >> yeah. no, you know -- this sounds -- >> the thing you most regret. >> i don't regret very much. because i really spend a lot of my life trying to stay present and stay in the moment and -- >> are you guys the same? or do you have genuine look back and think, yeah, that was a deciding moment? >> i regret things hour to hour. you know. that's just the way -- i always think i've made the wrong choice and this and that. but i can't -- at some point i have to realize i did okay. you know? i mean, i'm hard on myself. but it's hard. you know, i want to like myself, but i just won't let me because that's what works. >> coming up, i'll ask the boys which woman they would take to a desert island. ♪

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this automatically makes you -- >> i don't know. maybe. >> you're not claiming you're good at sports because you're black and we all know -- >> i guess i just assumed. you know? like that baseball movie. the one with all the women. >> "league of their own"? they weren't lesbians. they were playing baseball because the men were off at war. >> oh.

>> a hilarious scene from "men of a certain age." stars ray romano, andre braugher, scott bakula. it had to get around to lesbians eventually, didn't it? your show. kind of a classic middle-aged syndrome. >> sure. sure. why not? why not? >> you were falling about laughing there watching your own show. which is als always encouraging. >> yes. >> it is as you say a drama but it's also very funny. and i think it's also very accurate. when i hang out with all my mates at my age now, this is the kind of thing that we talk about. we talk about divorce, addiction, creative failure, child rearing, all the stuff that when you were 25 you never imagine in your wildest nightmares you're ever going to have to talk about. and andre, you're right. you kind of -- you quite like talking about it. you quite like this new stage of your life, right? >> i do. i enjoy it. i guess i should -- >> write what you know. >> write what you know, you know. yeah, the journey of a lifetime

has sort of brought us here. and i have to say all of our -- you know, theknow, the things that happened to us, the creative fodder that we use in the show has, you know, just allowed us to illuminate the men who receive very little play, you know. oftentimes when i meet people, like you said, they're saying thanks for making a show about us. a show that we can relate to, a show that deals with concerns that are important to older men. so i feel like we arrived at this point where we can tell these stories faithfully, rather than older men being the butt of the joke. >> if you could give advice to a 16-year-old, ray romano, what would you tell him? >> oh lord. >> all that you have learned now, as he set out on his adventure? whatever happens, happens. >> a 16-year-old ray romano? >> yeah. >> i would say don't kiss the redhead. it's just something personal. boy, i guess, you know, i had a couple of patches when i was 16 and in my 20s where it got a

little hairy emotionally. and i would just, you know, when it's happening to you, you don't think there is an end in sight, you know. and it's kind of scary. and so i would tell them, you know, it's going to be okay. but yeah, i had a couple of bumps in the road there. >> what kind of things? >> oh, i had in my 20s i didn't know what i wanted to do, and my brother had just gotten married, and he moved out of the house, and my friends were all getting married. and i just felt isolated and alone. you know, i had like a mid-20s crisis. and i was living at home. >> only you. >> yeah, i had like a very anxiety-ridden, and i had a little emotional struggle there for like a year or two of n my 20s. you know, didn't want to leave

the house for a little bit. and it took a while to dig myself out of this. i wasn't going to quit school, i had no idea. thank god stand-up comedy came along. >> kind of an emotional immaturity at that age which allows you to be spontaneous and frivolous and the thrill seeking. because you're immature, when they go wrong, they feel horrendous at the time. i look back on moments of my life, and i remember it seemed awful. now i look back and laugh and wait until you see real awful, mate. scott, what would you say if you were talking to a young scott, what would you tell him? >> oh, a young scott. i was just going to talk to young 16-year-olds in general and say wear a condom. but that's the best advice i could give a 16-year-old. >> it's good advice. >> first of all, 16-year-olds know so much more than i know. you know, and my 15 1/2-year-old son is much smarter than me. and they're so bright, these kids today. you know, they don't listen. >> andre, what would you say to a young andre? what were you like when you were young?

you seem very calm and dignified. like mature now. you must have had some wild days? >> i'm being quiet now. >> that's quiet for old. >> you're going to make so many horrendous mistakes in the course of a lifetime. but it couldn't have been any different. it's all about perspective i would say right now. you know, follow your heart. choose the path. choose the thing that makes you happy. it's really worked for me. >> how important is it to find the right woman? >> it's essential, i think. but again, none of them are right. they have to be -- >> dull. >> i'm just saying -- >> wouldn't sleep at our house tonight. that's okay. >> get yourself in trouble on this one. >> millions of women chucking their stilettos at the screen now. >> do you twitter? >> no, i do not twitter. >> you need to twitter apologies. >> we'll twitter for you. >> the entire female race, yeah. >> all i'm saying is you're going to change a million times

between the day you say i do and wherever you are 20 years later. you know, you and anna, you're not the same people. i mean you have changed so many times. you have grown through so many -- >> but she has hated me throughout. >> but she's -- i'm just saying that sticking with you and showing up, maybe it's too heavy or too serious about it. but sticking around and showing up, you know, for your life, your shared life is really the ultimate expression of love. >> if you could choose one, you haven't had any middle aged crises yet. i'm going to allow you one. >> okay. >> where you can flee to a desert island with one famous woman. just one. >> ellen barkin. >> she would be a good one. who would you say? >> i would say from the past, or not even -- sophia loren. >> she's still alive, you know

that. >> even now. even now. i'll take her now. >> scott? >> ellen barkin and sophia loren. they're already taken, right? well, kit be any time. i'll go back. >> any of you going to go for the classic middle aged crisis? >> i'll go for marilyn monroe. can i take marilyn? >> none of you said classic middle aged crises. >> well, i'm assuming megan fox is the caretaker of the island. >> she runs the drug store. >> all right. you can have that. scott, you haven't really come out with a name. you can't really have marilyn. >> why did he get sophia loren? >> she is still alive. >> i'll go with sophia begara. >> i had a scene with her in a movie, a love scene with her in a movie. >> really? >> it was movie that never came out. >> really? >> but i watch it every night. >> if i had a scene with her, i wouldn't care if it came out. gentlemen, thank you very much indeed. love the show. we're done. thank you.

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