The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

["John F. Kennedy" movie] was just really clever storytelling.

There is good and evil in each of us, and you can easily be led to the dark side.

[Doctor Cukrowicz] was basically a role where you have two diva actresses - Maggie Smith and Natasha Richardson - and my role was to say, "And then what happened? Tell me more." But I wanted to do it was because a) it was Tennessee Williams, a great writer, and b) it was Richard Eyre, an amazing director. And to work with those two amazing women!

The really good thing about my career is that I never went through a phase where I played characters who had names like "Partygoer," "Waiter," or "Guy #1."

In the business of acting, those are the actors that make the trains run on time, you know? There's nothing without them.

They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.