Gary Sinise

I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.

You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.

I study to learn, to be an educated person.

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.

There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.