Pretend was a big part of my childhood.

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I'd done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.

It can kind of screw up things if you're trying to overwork something.

I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

It used to kind of upset me when I'd be working on a part in my hotel room, and I'd get an idea for a song and find myself on the guitar for an hour when I should be working on my lines. But I've discovered that when I start to shake up my creativity it wants to be expressed in all kinds of different ways. They all kind of inform each other.