I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

I began my career in Los Angeles and started working fairly quickly.

I don't celebrate birthdays much, except for decade-wise. It's not a really big thing.

It's amazing being a member of perhaps the last analog generation - being born in the late '40s, growing up in the '50s and '60s, when it was still a very analog world. And in New Orleans those days, the country was just next door, as it were. You didn't have to travel miles and miles to get out in the woods. There's tons of fishing, obviously, in New Orleans, and tons of hunting. That was part of the cycle of life, to get fresh meat from the butcher or go duck hunting and get it yourself. It wasn't malicious or insensitive. It was just there, and you used it.

I love working with Gary Sinise.

I don't have anything against audiobooks. I actually did a couple of them - but not many. I just never got into it, timing-wise. I don't listen to them, if that's any indication of my feelings about them. I'd rather read.