I did [Henrik] Ibsen and [Anton] Chekhov for years. Obviously I didn't get the kind of recognition I have now. Somebody once told me, "You ride the horse the direction it's going."

Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.

When I first got out of drama school, my original manager tried to get me to change my name because people were having trouble spelling it and saying it.

I love walking around and grabbing coffee and sitting in a park and people watching… I love Greenwich Village.

It's tricky when I'm constantly traveling and adjusting to new time zones and trying to also keep up with my workouts.

I think when portraying someone that does exist in real life, there's an amount of respect and you want to do them justice. I don't really care what anybody says out there about what I did in the film; I care what these guys thought about what I did. If I'm making them happy, then I know I'm on the right track.

I was happier going back to my roots: training like men do in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Back home the guys in the gyms don't lift to look good; they're lifting to lift. They do it because they want to squat more and bench more.