ESPN Zone was probably the coolest thing I could do [making "Hardball"]. But Navy Pier was the other thing. I'd take my bicycle and ride down to Navy Pier and just hang out. Try to get a phone number or something. That was my thing.

[Kyle Chandler] taught me how to listen very well and reacting. There's a lot of improv. And to be able to do that on the spot you really have to be in tune with what the other person is saying instead of just waiting for your cue line or waiting for a word for you to deliver your next line.

Start producing, some writing, directing is definitely what I want to do and I'll be doing a lot more in the future as well.

I want people to leave the theater and think, "How can I be a better person?" That's the only way things are going to improve.

I'm definitely a lover, but I fight when I have to - for something or someone.

You start at a young age, going on auditions, and you think you did a good job and expect to get that role, and you don't, and it's a letdown, a disappointment. So you tell yourself to just do the work and disconnect, because you have no control over the outcome.

I can't sing worth a lick, so I don't know if I would be allowed in the ["The Mickey Mouse Club"].