What is your idea of perfect happiness? A healthy body, a glass of wine, a good meal, and funny companions.
What is your greatest fear? Untreatable pain. Harm to those I love. Earth dying.
Which historical figure do you most identify with? Emmett Kelly.
Which living person do you most admire? Pope Francis ain’t bad.
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Lateness.
What is the trait you most deplore in others? Lack of empathy.
What is your greatest extravagance? Hats.
What is your favorite journey? Any journey across water.
What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Candor.
On what occasion do you lie? When I’m late with no excuse.
Which words or phrases do you most overuse? “Amazing.”
What is your greatest regret? I’ve had a few, but then again, too few to mention.
What or who is the greatest love of your life? Alison Dickey.
When and where were you happiest? In a shoe store when I was a boy and my dad bought me cowboy boots. And onstage in theaters at a few choice curtain calls.
Which talent would you most like to have? Levitation.
What is your current state of mind? Reflective.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? My life expectancy.
If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be? The fact that they age.
What do you consider your greatest achievement? Becoming a working actor. And creating kind human beings from scratch.
If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be? A river.
If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be? See above.
What is your most treasured possession? My guitar, Charlie.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Prison.
Where would you like to live? On the lake in Chicago.
What is your favorite occupation? Clown.
What is your most marked characteristic? Empathy? You tell me.
What is the quality you most like in a man? Sensitivity.
What is the quality you most like in a woman? Chutzpah.
What do you most value in your friends? Patience in my absences and kindness when I return.
Who are your favorite writers? Paul Thomas Anderson and Tom Waits.
Who is your favorite hero of fiction? Humphrey Bogart.
Who are your heroes in real life? People who risk their lives to save others.
What are your favorite names? Jack, Cúchulainn, Leo, Arlo, Patrick, Charlie.
What is it that you most dislike? Deliberate cruelty.
How would you like to die? In good time.
What is your motto? “It is what it is, ‘til it ain’t.”