I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor

My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled

Every other movie is one of those action things. I mean, 'Lost in Space'? A bunch of good actors running around shooting at special effects on a soundstage? I took my kids to see that and felt like I was on an acid trip.

Take characters that Nicholson or De Niro play: they're not always tough

Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?

I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon

While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing