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.

Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.

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

You can't make people who you want them to be. That was a hard lesson for me.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.

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