I almost never give interviews. It's not because I want to play hard to get. It's just that I never seem to have anything interesting to say.

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.

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

I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.

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

I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.

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