I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.
I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
I gave up a long time ago trying to figure out what will happen in an acting career.
I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.
I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.
You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.
There's only a handful of people who are just purely, inherently funny, and I'm not one of them. I need content and a situation. I don't just walk on the screen, and people go, 'Ha ha ha!' There are people like that, and they can do almost anything. It's the Christopher Walken Rule.
It seems you can ask any friend, any relative, and they'll be able to tell you about someone they know with autism.
Even people who aren't engaged on the actual battlefield - the effects of war reach out like tentacles into families, into economies, into the changing geography, into politics. It shakes up everything.
There's a million different ways you can look at a moment.
When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
I'm a huge fan of sports movies.
For a stage actor to be there with the words and the creator of the words - it doesn't get much better than that.
I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.
When you're in a movie with Will Ferrell, well, it's time to at least sometimes throw the script away. And that character in 'Talladega Nights' I found a lot easier to kind of riff with because I related to it more, those kind of Southern, almost rednecky guys. That's a culture that I'm familiar with, that makes sense for me to spew.
There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.
Every actor thinks he's underused - unless he's a movie star.
A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.
As soon as you start figuring out what you're going to do, something will interrupt it.
