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.

Though [John] Hughes did provide for us, if we wanted, to go to a local high school and try to blend in. Michael [Hall] and Molly [Ringwald ] already had school to go to with their tutors. Ally [Sheedy] wanted nothing to do with high school. She said, "I remember it fine. I don't want to go back." Which is great. So Emilio [Estevez] and I went. And Emilio lasted a couple hours because people recognized him from The Outsiders that had already been out, so his cover was blown.

I wasn't Santa in Santa Jr., but I was Santa in Cancel Christmas.

You have to kind of roll with the punches. That's why I think work begets work to a certain degree. I just try and keep busy.

It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life.

[John] Hughes is a great loss, I think. He was the first filmmaker that could look at someone who was young without seeing them as being less.

I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting.