I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.
Let’s focus on where you could end up, not where you were or are.
Good decisions don't make life easy, but they do make it easier.
It's always best not to be thinking a hell of a lot while you're acting, because you want it to be as spontaneous as possible, not too intellectual. Just behaving and listening to other people who you're doing scenes with. I always like the latter when it looks easy, even though it may not be.
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.
I just don't eat too much. That's never been my problem.
When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
There is many different paths of a career. I bounce around and do a lot of different things. It suited me that hopefully I am prepared to do different kinds of styles, genres, or whatever you want to call it.
I was initially a leading man, but only on television.
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.
Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.
If you're onstage and you're improvising and nothing's happening, people are racing for the door. But the director can go shopping later and pick up pieces and moments and insert them.
There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.
I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.
I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.
Improv is not something I had a lot of experience with, because for a long time, my only experience in front of a camera was all television, which is pretty rigid script-wise, except for the occasional scene where you toss in an ad-lib just to elongate something.
You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.
I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.
You don't really have time to do other than what's written. It's very rigid. Shows have a certain rhythm that nobody wants disturbed. So a lot of that doesn't take place on television, at least the television I was doing at the time when I first started.
I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.
Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.
I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.
If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.
