Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.

I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.

L.A. kind of scares me.

I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail.

My family survived losing money to Bernie Madoff incredibly well compared to others.

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you and putting make-up on you and telling you when to wake up and when to go to sleep, holding your hand to cross the street. I can do it up to a certain point, and then I start to feel like a puppet.