Man, I did love this game. I'd have played for food money... I used to love traveling on the trains from town to town. The hotels... brass spittoons in the lobbies, brass beds in the rooms. It was the crowd, rising to their feet when the ball was hit deep. Shoot, I'd play for nothing!

With any mannerisms or dialogue, you have to be careful you're not just serving yourself. What happens with improving is a lot of times, if you're not in the framework of the script, you're just making everything easier so it fits you. It's much more interesting and challenging to go to it, rather than it coming to you.

You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can't put a round peg in a square hole.

The best way to learn anything is through a movie, because you have so much time to do it and you have great people teaching you.

I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.

There's a personal side to me of challenges as an actor that I like to take on myself.

I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me