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

When you try to worry about missteps and all that kind of stuff, that's not the healthiest way to be.

I had never really been around cards.

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

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