I went to North Texas State, one of the great jazz schools. When I realized I wasn't going to be Miles Davis, I switched my major to English and theater.

If you've got kids you know you've only got one prayer: "Let my kids outlive me." That's the bottom of everything.

I don't care for horror and fantasy films. I never go to see them in the theater. I know I've played in many of them, but I didn't do them because of their genre - I did them just because I loved their scripts.

I play in a jazz sextet. So I don't have time to do a lot of conventions. The good thing is, when I do them, it does puts me back in touch with the people who go to movies. I do these shows just to stay in touch with them.

Art has absolutely changed my life.

I'm just gonna be real grateful to be on any freaking movie set for the rest of my life.

I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.