I have a Kenwood charcoal grill. In our house, if anybody is cooking, it’s me. I love making burgers. I love making pork tenderloin. Lamb chops I do on the grill a lot. But you just can’t beat brats.
I’m quite excited to not play a Xena type character – it’s probably closer to me than any character I’ve ever played.
For years I drove a big Ford F250 pickup. That was my ride because two-thirds of my work was wood work, and I’m always driving up to Northern California, where I harvest salvaged trees.
If you’re an original thinker, you are going get told ‘no’ a lot, and you have to be able to hear ‘no’ many times from the bankers and trust that at some point, someone is going to recognize that you are an artist and not a can of soda.
I like to play women who are not strong at all, because, there’s certainly plenty of myself that is no kind of a warrior.
I really thought that I’d be doing Shakespeare, honest to God. I did not foresee the whole action television thing. That was God’s joke.
I keep having these bros come up to me and say, “I used to watch you when I was a fetus,” and I just want to kill them.
I think it’s fascinating that I receive attention for what people perceive to be a level of manliness or machismo, when amongst my family of farmers and paramedics and regular Americans, I’m kind of the sissy in my family.
My family has schoolteachers and librarians, and I think people who teach are probably some of our greatest American heroes. Certainly, underpaid and unsung.
I always call myself a “student” of the guitar.
Children are so egocentric – they want to watch their lives, and not yours.
I feel it’s important to point out that I’ve earned my humility by being a jackass – like, I trip and fall on my face and say, “Oh, right. Don’t think you’re a big shot, because you’ve got a bloody nose now.” So it’s hard to say.
My career is inexplicable to me. So far I’ve just been not getting fired despite being myself.
It was on a van ride home from the movie set that everything came together. I realized I had to get off Twitter. It just struck me that I couldn’t stop everyone else from doing it, but I could certainly stop myself.
Whenever I have a stubborn position on something, I take a deep breath and swallow myself.
People are afraid that they’re going to upset somebody on top, and so there’s a real sense of, I’ve got to be quiet, I don’t want to be fired.
People keep referring to me as a standup, and that just doesn’t sit well with me because a lot of my friends are standups and they’re brilliant at writing jokes, and I’m not.
I learned as a young man that I don’t write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a laugh. I call myself a humorist.
No one will ever ask me to sing because it’s beautiful. My secret is hiding my musicianship behind humor.
I’m always pleased that I managed to stay out of jail throughout my tenure in Chicago.