You're working so hard and so many hours, you simply don't get to visit with everybody when you're gone for five months. That's part of the trade in we make with this career. You don't get to maintain the intimacy you would like to.One of the big things I was doing was working on reestablishing that.

You can hear how hard I work, I think, from these stories I'm telling. I'm incredibly dedicated and I'm sort of known as that to a point that people tease me about it.

When I did Casual, I just let myself put on weight because he's a schoolteacher. He's not meant to be muscle-y.

I'm obsessive about my job and I want it to be as great as it can possibly be, especially right now in these early parts of my career.

When I look at myself in the mirror, I don't see the bad guy.

I was eating with the help of a nutritionist so I was definitely putting in the appropriate calories and vitamins and minerals into my body; however, it was still so little that if I had the tiniest piece of sugar, my brain would go crazy. If I had some alcohol during the run of that play, my brain would go crazy.

The guy [Tom Cruise] is a machine.