I grew up on the stage, where you just throw yourself into projects and don't get in your own way.

I'm acting with the best actors in the world.

I've been on the stage my entire life as an actor.

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

I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there.

I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.

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.