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

When you do a television show in the States, you get the pilot, and then it's the great unknown. That's the way it is. It's this great leap of faith. It's the Russian roulette of art.

I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.

One of the great things going on right now is social media and you get a real sense, immediately, about what people are feeling and thinking.

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

My goal, everyone's goal is to get better at what we do.

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