I come from a theater family and a theater background, and I come from a philosophy that you respect the space you occupy when you work and you put everything that you have into something.

One of the great things going on right now is social media and you get a real sense, immediately, about what people are feeling and thinking.

I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there.

Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.

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

I'm one of these people who would rather show you than tell you through the performance.

You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?"