Hey, I'm just trying to become the Michael Caine/Gene Hackman of my generation.

I come from a pretty working-class neighborhood in Chicago. Hard work was just expected of you. It wasn't some noble thing you did; it was a prerequisite. It's what a man did. You get up, you put on your boots, and you work hard. We've lost a lot of that, I'm afraid.

I'm not a huge sports fan in general, I don't spend a lot of time watching other people do stuff. I tend to like to go out and do stuff myself.

If I'm committed to something really stupid, then I'm in a comedy.

Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk.

The truth is that filmmaking is not really an actor's medium; it's really a director's medium, so all I can really control is the character that I'm playing. So I try to look for characters that are interesting and engaging and different than what I've done before and hopefully it becomes a good movie.

An actor's life is like a series of - it's like the first day of school happening over and over again.