Around mid-life everyone goes maniac a little bit.

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

Most of what gets made now, you laugh your way through, go home and forget you've seen it.

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

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

I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off.

I remember seeing Bill Hurt in New York once. I talked to him on the phone around 1988 and that's about it. I was shooting in New York and somebody said Glenn Close came by the set