I've never tried to be something I'm not.

Everybody's motivation comes from the core of who they are.

No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.

Im a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after Mystic Pizza, not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.

I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.

And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true.

My 22-year-old [son] can see everything I've done, but my 15-year-old hasn't been able to see anything, at all. But yeah, I hope I'm a super cool dad.