When I was coming up, if you were on a TV show, that meant something was wrong with your career. Now it means something's right with your career.

People always like stories about the little guy fighting the big guy.

Sometimes we don't want the bad guy to get caught because otherwise the story is over. You want to at least see it through to the end.

Well I loved Little League; so all the memories are pretty fond but I broke my thumb. That wasn't a lot of fun. I think probably the first time I pitched [I started out as a first baseman] and the first game I pitched in Little League, I struck out 10 batters. I had a curve ball a little early [laughs]. You're not really supposed to have one when you're 12, but I did, so I first game I struck out 10 batters. That's possibly my fondest memory.

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

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.

I figured I would have to tell someone to kiss my ass before it was all over, and I have -- twice.