If you don't look at yourself and evaluate it, you instead see how the world's reacting to it.

I've had to learn and discipline myself that I'm much happier and much less depressed if I give myself a project. It's just that simple.

When I was in high school, I would perform every year in those plays and there was something I really loved about it. But I was completely unaware that you could sort of get into an acting career.

Once you have a PhD, every meeting you go to becomes a doctor's appointment.

Whatever it is you like to do, that's the sexiest part of you.

My uncles, who are farmers in Minooka, Illinois - I grew up with them and their pickup trucks and mustaches, and to me that was masculinity: big hairy sweaty guys who could pick up a bus.

Before people figured out I was funny, I got cast quite a bit as either a rapist or serial killer or the guy who catches those people.