I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me.

I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there was a bunch of them at once.

There's something about the way of playing a repellent character, that if you can play him with a certain amount of charm, you can get away with a lot.

My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it.

In 1984 nobody knew what cable was going to be. It was there, but you didn't know where it was going.

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies. There's always the little guy who's the sidekick to the tall, good-looking guy who gets the girl.

The movies that I did in the '80s were either good or bad, but I never was oppressed with any feeling - I mean, I thought it was ridiculous to play high school or college students when I was 30. But at the same time, that was really done then.