Birthday: April 4, 1965.
Birthplace: Lynchburg, Va.
Occupation: Actor and comic.
Current home: Hollywood Hills.
Marital status: Single.
Car: A dark green 1995 Infiniti I30.
Working on: I play Boyd, the handyman, on “Boston Common” on NBC-TV, and I’ve got a movie coming out this summer, “The Rock,” with Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery.
Favorite pigout food: A big bowl of mashed potatoes surrounded by peas.
Nickname: Tony D.
Prized possession: I don’t have any. My friends tell me it’s obvious that my money isn’t going into my wardrobe. I’m hiding it in Mason jars and burying it in the back yard.
Personal heroes: David Letterman is the funniest, most sarcastic person I’ve ever met. I respect Larry Bird’s work ethic. And to me, Magic Johnson is like an angel. He’s such a champion for the underdog. Whatever I’m doing, I want him on my team.
People always think I’m: John Cusack.
I’m better than anyone else when it comes to: Listening.
If I could do it over: I wanted to go to Yale graduate school for acting, but I didn’t get in. But looking back, my career just started three years earlier.
I’d give anything to meet: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Gary Oldham, Daniel Day-Lewis, the great actors.
My fantasy is: I’m living it. As a kid, I never knew anyone who left the state, let alone went to college. Wanting to go into show business was like saying you wanted to walk on Mars. I wondered if I was insane to want to do it. But I graduated from college in 1987 and made my first movie, with River Phoenix, three years later. I could have died then and been happy.
If I could change one thing about myself: I’d be less critical of my work.
The best time of my life: Making my first movie, “Dog Fight.”
The worst time of my life: Junior year in college I had my appendix out and I went right back to school and got an infection and wound up missing a semester. I’m incredibly energetic and it was hard on me, staying in bed. I felt like my life was on hold.
Major accomplishment: Doing Letterman and “The Tonight Show.”
Most humbling experience: After everything, nobody has any idea who I am.
Three words that best describe me: A good soul.
