In general, I did what a lot of character actors do: I did it to get girls.

I just don't feel like part of the fraternity of actors. I do geek out. All the time.

I've worked with Jack Nicholson and Robert De Niro and Tom Hanks. I've worked with some really good directors: Woody Allen, Paul Schrader... My God, I've really worked with a lot of people. But I'm intimidated by them, and I'm always thinking, "Oh, my God, he's not going to like me, and I'm going to get fired."

Show business is a great place to fail upward... and I guess that's what I've done.

I was lucky enough to be a "type." Sort of a bad-guy type at the time, because I was tall and I had dark eyes. A lot of times, you don't have to be good; you just have to be the right type.

I am not a member of the chamber of commerce for show business, believe me, but there are some really good people in the business, and [Tom] Hanks has this everyman decency onscreen, but he actually is that guy.

The best thing to do, if you really want to be good, is drink vodka all day, from the second you get up to the second they say, "Cut!"