Steppenwolf has always been at the center of everything in my professional life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've been blessed. Starting with Steppenwolf Theater and onward, learning from wonderful actors and getting to play with wonderful actors.
I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.
'Step Brothers' itself, when I did it, I don't know if I had any idea that it would become a defining moment in my career and life like it has, and I'm really happy that that's the one that ended up being that for me.
All my life I had a rapport with black caddies.
'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that's challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics.
After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht and traveled the world instead of returning to Steppenwolf to act in and write plays. But I'm from the Midwest, and that's what we do: We go back to work.
From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life.
My journey has been that of a character actor.
In any profession it gets to be a grind.
I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days.