To a certain extent in Hollywood you're a product, and your product is whatever sells the most, and whatever sells the most is whatever the public likes to see you do - if anything.

Chicago my favourite American city. I'm very much a typical midwesterner, and I don't think the condition is curable.

I think probably when I was little, after my brother turned on me, I just had to play by myself or with myself. I've always done that. I think either it's some kind of weirdly competitive streak or it takes my mind off whatever's bothering me.

I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.

I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.

It never occurred to me to be an actor.

And if you say a word about this over the radio, the next wings you see will belong to the flies buzzing over your rotting corpse.