I guess Ive always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor.

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.

Music helps define the character and is an extension of the character somehow, so that you are able to use both the songs themselves and the way that you sing them to tell something about the character and his story, as well as develop a performance style.

I've never felt that I've had some great fashion sense of my own - I tend to wear what my wife tells me to wear.

Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming.

Barry Levinson is such a deceptive director, because he seems really lackadaisical. I'd never worked with him before, and I almost got the impression that he didn't really care that much because he was so laid-back. Sometimes we'd finish filming hours before the day was over, which is just unthinkable in any other film experience I've had. I couldn't believe that Barry had the passion for it.