I came in on the tail end of the old school of Hollywood

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

I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect.

Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal

You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.

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

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