Every part I get, I just think I'm so lucky. They're so hard to get, you know.

I'm hideously shy as myself but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.

Onstage I'm the one in control - I'm not at the mercy of how an editor chooses to put the scene together later. I can do things onstage that I would never do in real life. It's very freeing.

I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.

I work just as hard and have just as much fun whether in a 50-seat house or in a 1000-seat house. It's a luxury to be in a tiny space every once in a while and a rush to be on a giant stage every once in a while.

I don't like working in front of a camera.

My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.