If you are an incredibly reactive person and you are working on your lowest level, and if you continuously give into your dark side and are angry, and screaming, and breaking things, and you do that for hours and hours on end, you are going to be incredibly exhausted. That's just the way life is.

When you play a character with power and energy, people lock into that and go, "Oh, this must be the guy."

I grew up in the theatre.

John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous.

When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.

The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work.

Sometimes in life, we have to continue to learn the same lesson until it sticks.