I boxed through college and I played college level football. I was a linebacker.

You really have to be a character to serve it properly. Obviously, you're acting, but you have to have those things in yourself, whether it's the experience or the same qualities.

Playing characters that speak a very violent language was my livelihood.

Within the stability of a family struggle, when there's less chaos, you can have the most soul-searching and the most digging to find out what and who you really are.

I just think that, at the end of the day, you needed the catharsis of revelation.

I did the David Cronenberg film, A History of Violence, with Viggo Mortensen and I played a real sociopath. For the next seven years, I played the psycho-of-the-week.

I had a great mother, and I'm very comfortable with that maternal element.