Sometimes in life, we have to continue to learn the same lesson until it sticks.

When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.

I don't know if there's a lot of patience anymore. I think that could serve a lot of people.

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

I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.

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

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