The main thing about improvising is listening so if something happens that wasn't expected and you know your character, you know what has to happen in this scene, you can react to that in a way that's honest and it might take you in a different direction to go to the same place.

I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.

Relationships are a two way street. Not a highway and a bike path.

I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.

All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.

The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer.