I couldn't stop to be upset or depressed about anything when I was at Tiger Stadium with Billy Crystal shooting for three weeks. I was going to enjoy….

Shia [LaBeouf] was great. He's just high energy. He's into really playing, and I had to be on my toes in a way that I wasn't necessarily expecting..

Every actor wants to do more, because you always think you can improve it..

I had one really memorable line. It was all the words you're not allowed to say on the airwaves, so it's one long list of swear words. I knew it anyw….

I lived in New York, and I was the guy who was flying home almost every week, so there was a physical exhaustion and an emotional exhaustion for me, ….

Everybody else, they're wonderful, but [Robert] Duvall sets the tone for all of cinema acting. So just to be in his space was amazing..

I can play a Jewish guy, another Jewish guy, and then another Jewish guy, and then maybe a Cuban guy. Or at least a Middle Eastern guy. But for me, t….

I certainly have played a lot of strong characters, and I love playing a strong character..

We walked out of this library building downtown, just on our way to lunch, and I was walking a few steps behind Travolta, and when he opened the door….

My first film role was a reporter. It's funny, because my father was a news reporter. I always thought there was something strange about that..

Path To War was the last thing that John Frankenheimer directed, I think, before he died. I'm a huge U.S. history buff, and I studied the Vietnam era….

Every actor wants to know in different ways. Some like to know everything. Some don't want to know anything. I think I land somewhere in the middle..

I wound up auditioning, wound up getting in, and I was off to the races: I was putting in four more years after school to train to be an actor. I was….

Hugh Laurie was intimidating, but he's the greatest guy. He's so wonderful and smart and funny and serious, and he sets the bar high. So if I was sca….

Anything government or politics is always exciting for me..

I really had spent my whole life playing soccer, and the fact that I was willing to give that up for theater, that told me I was moving in that direc….

Intimidation is 99 percent in the intimidatee's head..

I always loved doing productions in school. In college, I started getting a little more serious..

I guess actors don't like to direct each other..

I'm frankly shocked that Hollywood hasn't called me to do a superhero..

Some friends of mine in the class ahead of me in college were auditioning for graduate school in New York, and then a few of them got into Juilliard,….