Part of an actor's job is to draw up a back story.

I'm a big fan of 'Mad Men.'

I realized, "Oh my god, this is an enormous play. And it's almost all me. Big. big chunks of speeches, speeches, speeches." And I started to panic.

With craziness, you can't predict it. There's very little defense you can have on craziness.

I'm just a big boy, I'm still just playing cowboys and Indians and astronaut and baseball player and all that stuff that I used to play as a kid.

I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.

The turmoil that my dad went through, and then by extension, the kids went though, was profound and disastrous for the marriage, for the family.