I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled.

When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.

In a sense, all actors are character actors, because we're all playing different characters. But a lot of the time - and I don't know, because I'm not a writer - but writers a lot of times write second- and third-tier characters better than they write primary characters. I guess they're more fun.

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.

I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.

There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.