“I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.”

“There's another film - a little Greek movie - that hopefully is going to get some distribution here in the U.S., called 'Worlds Apart,' where I also play a 60-year-old guy who looks a lot like J.K. Simmons, who has a romantic relationship with an appropriate woman.”

“My overall quest is always to do something that's somehow different from whatever it is that I just got done doing. If that can include occasionally playing an older guy who has a romantic side and a romantic relationship, than that's a real treat.”

“I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them. ”

“I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.”

“I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.”