I've been a fan of hip-hop for a really long time, and I still am.

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

As an actor you want to explore something you haven't done.

Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.

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

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.

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