I grew up in the theatre.

I have been drumming my whole life.

I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.

I like to box. It's a great release.

I had never really been around cards.

I'm a stage actor. That is what I do.

I feel, as a person, very uninteresting.

Everyone's journey is completely different.

I'm acting with the best actors in the world.

I've been on the stage my entire life as an actor.

My goal, everyone's goal is to get better at what we do.

Robert Rodriguez is a genius, and I'm a huge fan of his.

If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.

I want to be radical on the inside, but not on the outside.

As an actor you want to explore something you haven't done.

I do yoga. I've been doing yoga for over 20 years and I love it.

I'm not a video game guy. I would rather throw around a football.

I've been a fan of hip-hop for a really long time, and I still am.

I grew up watching PBS and wanting to be a part of it, just like HBO.

When I was growing up, I was always on stage but I loved other things.

The stage is my love, it's where I started and where I do my best work.

You can't make people who you want them to be. That was a hard lesson for me.

Sometimes in life, we have to continue to learn the same lesson until it sticks.

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.

It sounds clichéd, but I think the greatest lesson is to not take things personally.

I relished the opportunity to be on Broadway... It's the holy grail for people like me.

I'm one of these people who would rather show you than tell you through the performance.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

What's this? You're wearing the shirt of the band you're going to see? Don't be that guy.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

I don't know if there's a lot of patience anymore. I think that could serve a lot of people.

For so much of my career I've been trying to find little things and make something out of it.

There are so many great directors that I haven't worked with and that I would love to work with.

HBO does something that most networks don't do which is give a show a chance to find their voice.

I grew up on the stage, where you just throw yourself into projects and don't get in your own way.

Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.

When you try to worry about missteps and all that kind of stuff, that's not the healthiest way to be.

When you play a character with power and energy, people lock into that and go, "Oh, this must be the guy."

I wrote a script and I've been whispering in director's ears for a really long time and I'd love to direct.

The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'.

I think people are gravitating towards these period dramas because I think they're looking for a simpler time.

All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.

You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?"

We all deal with issues of time. The first thing you do in the morning is look at the clock to see what time it is.

One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters.

You're trying to figure out a way to go back in time and spend more time with your father. Who wouldn't want to do that?

Mercury poisoning sounds like a rich man's disease . . . like something you might get from the leather seats in your Lamborghini.

If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.

For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy thing to do.

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