You cant act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.

I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.

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

I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

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

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.

What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me.