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

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

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

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.

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

There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress