I've always been happy just to be working. It doesn't really matter for me how many people are familiar with my name or my picture, or whatever.

If you don't fight the system, you can either take advantage of the system or let the system take advantage of you.

I certainly don't want to have too many pre-conceived notions before I show up because then you might be cutting yourself off from the real lessons of what is going on.

I enjoyed living in Chicago and doing plays for little or no money. I never actually thought that I would leave Chicago, originally. I wasn't one of those people that had a plan to pack up the van and drive out to Hollywood. I didn't want to.

One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.

One thing I'm a big fan of is the theater of the absurd. That's what I come from, that's what I love to do more than anything. What I love about absurdity is the words "comedy" and "drama" get thrown out the window and it's just life, which is absurd.

Plenty of people are onto the emptiness but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.