To tell you the truth, I don't ever talk about characters as separate from myself.

We don't shoot in L.A. much anymore. You know, TV and movies, most everything's shot other places.

I'm not a TV junkie outside of sports and history really and stuff like that.

I don't think anybody chooses to be an underdog.

I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.

The great movies that I want to do now are being made for $2.5-million budgets.

We didn't have a movie theatre until I was about nine, so I just didn't see them. But, once I got into movies I loved them.