Quotes

Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.

Sometimes, you're in great demand. Then suddenly, your career hits the brakes.

Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.

[on his work ethic]: There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.

If we have any hope of preserving our own country, we have to look at our history constantly so that we don't repeat that again and that we stand up for this country with everything we have to make sure that tyranny never wins out, that freedom always prevails.

[on why he started his foundation to help veterans]: I feel there's a reason I've had the acting career and success that I've had and the money I've made. I was called for this service and I was given this gift of this beautiful career to be able to do something positive to help other people with it.

[on Steppenwolf, Feb 2020]: We just wanted to do plays. We didn't charge any money. Now it's a multi-million dollar theater company. We're building a theater in the round right now, next to a building that has three theaters already that we built from the ground up. We own four buildings in Chicago. It's a pretty big American theater story.