People need to know you have to walk through that rejection, and it's only going to fuel you. If you can somehow look at it like it's a gift, you're just going to regroup, and work harder, and go deeper. So just embrace it.

My goal, everyone's goal is to get better at what we do.

I'm a stage actor. That is what I do.

One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters.

I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can... The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease.

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

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.