And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true.

Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.

When you're a child, you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.

People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.

It doesn't need to be a number one show, it just needs to be good.

To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.