There is always going to something very grounded about the characters I play, because of my Chicago roots, because the city is so grounded. Even my wife pointed it out when we were in the city, she said that even the architecture is grounded in Chicago, it's so solid. Because it has to deal with winters. There is something about Chicago that keeps people centered and grounded.

I like pizza and I like cheeseburgers a lot and I like Chicago food a lot.

I like to move quickly. I don't like the nature of television of just sitting around and overshooting.

I always thought, if you're gonna do TV, you want to play a straight, solid, pillar-of-the-show kind of guy.

Everybody has their different tastes with television - there are some characters people like, some characters people hate.

I don't believe in karaoke. Let's let the singers sing.

If I'm in a bar and I gotta be sitting next to some clown who's like, "It's my tune," I don't want to hear you belt out Bruce Springsteen. That's why we have jukeboxes! Let's let Bruce be Bruce.