What's this? You're wearing the shirt of the band you're going to see? Don't be that guy.

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.

I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.

I'm in the middle of just trying to impress my nieces, who think I work for the bus company because they saw a picture of me on a bus. I did an independent movie with Mark Pellington (I Melt with You), and then tried to impress my nieces again, by starring opposite Miley Cyrus (in So Undercover). So, basically I'm just trying to get some respect from my family.

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

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

For so much of my career I've been trying to find little things and make something out of it.