It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.
Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.
I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time.
I definitely had a top-notch education.
I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point.
I have the mentality of a supporting actor.
I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway.
I don't think film actors need training, really.
I wanted to play Zapruder, as he is a man you really don't know much about: a faceless, anonymous figure.
There is something pleasurable for an actor to produce something and not be in it.
If I play a more aggressive, stronger guy, I often go through my day feeling a bit better than when I play somebody who's not.
Now, actors get so familiarized with Eastern Europe. I never imagined I'd get as familiar with Budapest and Prague and places like that in my life.
I was more used to acting onstage, for a long time. I don't know, maybe I was temperamentally more suited to stage stuff. And there are things about the stage that I miss in a lot of ways.
Most conspiracies interest me because of the people who are into them, and the lengths they'll go to expose it or the evidence they think they have. All that stuff. There's just something so beautiful to me about people who sincerely believe we never went to the moon. It gives me so much joy.
I don't really have any opinion about my performance in 'Big Momma's House.'
I was a big 'Planet of The Apes' fan, so I was really excited about being in it. I had a really good time. I liked wearing all that stuff, and I liked playing the part.
I don't feel like I've ever done anything - even 'Big Momma's House' - that I didn't really have some desire to do.
I would probably choose supporting roles if I had to make a choice. It's actually a really hard thing to say. It's all on a role-by-role basis, ultimately. I shouldn't be so quick to say that. I feel like you're given greater license to be colorful and eccentric in supporting roles, and that's interesting to me.
It's funny: most people who recognize me on the subway and stuff - it's much more they think of me as a funny guy. I get much more of people telling me how much I make them laugh, actually. Which is nice.
I played old men back in drama school. It's just now that I'm drawing level with the age of the characters I play, but I'm fine with that, and I've certainly never envied people who became hugely famous when they were young.
