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.

Well, here's all you need to know. Classes, nothing before 11. Beer, its your best friend, you drink a lot of it. Women, you're a freshman, so its pretty much out of the question. Will you have a car? ... Someone on your hall will, find them and make friends with them on the first day.

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

It sounds clichéd, but I think the greatest lesson is to not take things personally.

The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work.

With me, growing up in a theater family and having them be so supportive, from the jump, and being a part of this theater community where the brass ring is working, wherever that is, and then to play a character where he's not really concerned with that and is really just concerned with the monetary aspect of the job, and then to be identified with someone who is the antithesis of your energy and where you come from, has been a very interesting and surreal ride.

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