My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner.

You have to be so confident and so gifted to fill five minutes of nothing at the very beginning of a play before even a word is uttered.

It's strange, 'cause a play, you start at the beginning and you go all the way through to the end. So it's naturally very well rehearsed and you get a rhythm and a flow. In film, you can shoot the ending before the beginning. It's very odd. And it's like a craft you have to learn.

[John] Hughes really wanted it to sound authentic. He was a real collaborator. He encouraged us to bring to the material things we thought were maybe more truthful.

All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites.

Trace Adkins is such a great guy. Really is. And he's got that incredible voice - low, deep. He throws words around like "my dental coverage."

Almost anything makes me laugh, especially jokes at my own expense. And I will never, ever admit to being ticklish anywhere.