• "You can either cash in on what you do really well--if it's one or two things that you feel most confident about--and thereby build a career around that, or consciously choose to make sure you're re-educating the casting people, producing people, and directors that there's more to your choices than just those things. I have turned down a lot of things because, first of all, I don't know that I'd enjoy being part of that story, and sometimes because there are slots which are easy to be put into and you try to avoid those so that you can continue to grow and explore other realms of acting." -2003

• "If you're lucky enough to get a lead role in a film, then you're close to doing this experience in the same way that you're doing a play: You're [acting] every day. But nothing really compares to the rehearsal process and every night exploring the same thing over and over and seeing how the material itself has a life of its own. You become like a stone in the water of this stream of this production, in that you will be shaped by it as much as you are shaping it. It's kind of an ethereal thing, but actors who are in the theatre and love it will always return there, because the molecules sort of bounce around in the room much differently than in a film. Theatre, I find, is a really wonderful place to continue to grow." -2003

• "I tend to get as much information, in as many different ways, as I can. If it's a play, it's often about the historical contact and the social things going on at the time--what kind of art, what kind of clothes, the whole gestalt of where, when, and why with a play. I find any and all information about a person, place, and thing can't help but give you a fuller awareness and references to your avail and use." -2003

• "...I'm not a very objective judge of my own work. I mean, for me, if I managed to depict somebody [Eight Men Out] who could throw a convincing 80-mile-per-hour knuckleball, then that's a great performance." -2002

• "Sometimes it's hard to get there... You're a different person at the end of a sequence, and sometimes the last scene is the very first scene that is filmed. You have to continually know where your character is, in terms of his development, and you have to figure out if you're acting like your character would or how you think your character should be acting. Sometimes it's a very fine line." -2000

• "A simple way of looking at the lead is he is the one who guides you through the story. But character actors bring a special spice to the story." -1995

• "I always tried to find a place in each play to fall down and take a pratfall. It's my homage to the great clowns." -1995

• "I try to find something in the characters I choose that has some redeeming quality or some tangible motivation, like Eddie in Eight Men Out, or any excuse, like pure evil. I'd like to play a character from the beginning of his life to the end." -1990