There are a lot of techniques for developing a character.
If you do good work, you start to make a name for yourself and things can come around. Weird little happenstances happen.
The first season of a show is kind of like an extended pilot. You're only really on the map if it goes a second season.
I had no idea how to make it as an actor. But I knew I wanted to.
In this fragmented world, with such short attention spans, you've got a couple of episodes to make an impression. And if you don't, you start to lose your audience in a big way.
Once I started working as a professional actor, it was like, 'Bye-bye waiting tables, bye-bye bartending, bye-bye all the cliched jobs actors do.' But after a year of not getting work, there's this really difficult conflict, like, 'Do I have to go back to being a waiter when people recognize me from a show?'
Everyone can write jokes and makes things clever.
When I watch a comedy that's just hitting you over the head with jokes constantly, some really hit, but if they miss, you're like, 'Eh.'
I have a psychology degree, but I was a real theater rat.
At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter.
I think what's most fun is playing someone who's sort of selfish and in a lot of ways unlikeable, but there's this really big heart underneath it that you get little glimpses of.
I think me having kids is helpful. It opens up a new little area of your heart.
When a character does something appalling but you still want to root for them, I find that the most exciting challenge to play, if you can pull it off. You're not supposed to like it, but you can't help it.
The first movie that made me cry was 'Dead Poets Society.' That one gets me. 'O Captain! My Captain!' That moment kills me.
I lived in Koreatown for five years, and I lived blocks away from about seven karaoke bars.
I love Boston, and at some point, my plan is to have a home back there.
Hockey on roller skates is like MMA in a bounce house: the elements are there, but the medium makes the whole thing ridiculous.
I am not a man in decent shape.
My wife likes the hockey smell because it's the smell of a warrior.
If you don't know how to play hockey, learn. If you quit, get back out there.
