Philadelphia is my home. I felt homeless for quite a while. In LA, so much revolves around show business, I never felt it was a very balanced life.

I`ve grown up doing repertory theatre where I`ve gotten to do all kinds of roles, and then there I was cast on St. Elsewhere for six years.

There was an actual script, but when you would get in the room and start shooting, there was no rehearsal in the room or wherever you were.

I don`t even know what TV star means. I know there`s a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies. They feel OK coming up to you and sitting with you in a restaurant, unfortunately.

I`m very involved in the family`s daily life. I drive the kids to school. I do father-son overnights. I do all the cooking when I`m home.

I don`t like talking about myself. I`m not really interested in myself. One of the good things about being a supporting actor is that you get to talk about other people.

You get to the middle of a take that`s going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you`ve got to get things going all over again.

I`ve had roles as a computer and as a criminally insane man. These kinds of roles set you free because they`re not close to you.

There`s a different kind of satisfaction in helping a director achieve, you know, something like The Green Mile, which I thought was pretty terrific.

I did a series for six years and I may wind up doing one again someday. But at that time, it was hard to be kind of in the same mold year after year.

I`m not sure I always feel like I`m in the seat. Sometimes I`m only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don`t know anybody who doesn`t feel that way.

Film is a very intimate medium.

In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.

Everything is interesting to me.

I`m acting for the pleasure of it.

I got nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. People who make those kinds of films need anything they can get to get attention, money.

Home wasn`t a pleasant place to live, growing up.

I try to do things I haven`t been able to before.

It`s great to be able to have your feet in both worlds. I wouldn`t want to be just stuck in one or the other.

With Sean Penn, he wants to be surprised. He doesn`t necessarily want what he`s written, although we`ll do what he`s written. He likes the danger of acting.

I have a DVD player and I have DVDs, and I have no time to watch any of them.

I`ve tried to let the work I do speak.

I`ve always tried to not let movie, television or theatre be all that my life is about. I`ve always tried to get involved in the community or my family now I have kids.

I was stuck as a Boomer type in a lot of people`s minds.

No matter how many people tell you, Save your money, when you`ve got a series, you never do. Somehow it doesn`t seem important. Maybe it`s because you`ve been without money for so long as an actor.

I don`t care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself.

By the time I could have played football, I was already into acting and that`s what I wanted to do.

I`m a very private person.

As an actor, what we hope for is someone who is in the moment and completely alive, because that just makes you all the more alive.

In my first film, I was a basketball player. Like every good actor, I lied when they asked me if I could play.

I will be always grateful to NBC.

I`ve done scenes in films that I felt like the performance was better in certain takes, but they couldn`t use them because it didn`t match what the person was doing when they came around and the camera was on them.