“I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I somehow gave off an impression at an audition that had them mentally put me in a three-piece suit or put an attache case in my hand. If there was a stiff-guy part, the direc”

“I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.”