Actor

Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.

Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.

I wanted to play this part: the goofy rock and roller who can't hang up his guitar when it's clear to everyone else that he should.

If you skate with an Olympic level skater, they make you so much better because you're skating behind them, and you're trying to imitate their stride and their stance. It's like having the world's greatest training wheels.

I would love to do another hockey movie. There are a lot of people in Hollywood looking for the right hockey script.

I grew up Catholic, so the more non-denominational Christian experience was a new experience for me.

It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.

I'm a huge baseball fan and follow it very closely.

I think it's particularly stupid that filmmakers have traditionally said, 'Yeah, I like baseball, but the movie's not going to be about the intricacies of the game.' I mean, you wouldn't cast an overweight guy with stubble if you were doing a ballet film.

When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.

If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.

I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.

I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.

All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can't create content.

When you do a play, or even a movie, you have weeks to finesse your character. You really understand why they do what they do. In TV, you get new material weekly about your character.

To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.

More is asked of you on stage. It's no way to make a living. But it's like a bullfight. You find out who can do it and who can't.

Say something personal, not from a publicist.

Who needs MGM? Who needs any of these places?

I felt like the world of baseball in 1919 was much closer to what A-ball would be now - guys riding buses, there's no training staff, and there's a lot of paranoia.