I went to Harvard and immediately fell into the theater gang, and I was already an experienced actor, so you go with the flow! I've already used the phrase "campus star."

The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.

That's how you deal with stardom; you make it the least important part of your life.

I grew up in a theater family. My father was a regional theater classical repertory producer. He created Shakespeare festivals. He produced all of Shakespeare's plays, mostly in Shakespeare festivals in Ohio. One of them, the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, is still going. So I grew up not wanting to be an actor, not wanting to go into the family business.

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife

For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling.