"Screaming is hard after a while." — J. K. Simmons

Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outside of myself. I didn't have a wife and kids, so I could afford to sort of barely scrape by, to do theater.

I've always believed, maybe naively, that 'The play's the thing.'

I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.

After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.

I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.

I have a degree in music, yeah, from the University of Montana. I studied voice and composition and conducting and all that.

I'd always had the concern that being in commercials would affect my credibility when I was getting started as a TV and film actor.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

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Screaming is hard after a while.