If you are truly fearless as a performer, than you don't fear kids or dogs.

Kissing's a good thing, man. It's the doorbell of intimacy.

I don't want my hair to be ridiculous. But in Texas I do wear a hat a lot, so I probably have hat-head more than I'm aware of.

As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.

I like to keep my private stuff pretty vague.

Villains with a conscience have this sad realization of who they are, and the monster they've become — there's a sense of regret. So at the end of these movies there's a dramatic resonance that really stays with the audience.

When I landed in L.A. in early '89, William Morris decided to take me on to see if I could get any jobs. I was cast in a TV movie called Protected Surf, and made $30,000 in four weeks, and I decided I needed to take acting seriously, because I had never made that much money in a year, much less four weeks. That's when I decided I thought I could make a career out of it.