I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasn't good enough to play with the big boys. I had to go away and learn, so I worked in regional theater for three years. I even understudied at the Kennedy Center.
I accept the fact that some things don't go the way you hope.
One of the tasks that any artistic director has is, you're trying to bring elements together that will work. The truth is that you could bring all the best talents in the world together and produce a big turkey.
What's my favourite book? It changes all the time.
What I like about Britain is that I can live a normal life here.
Where the gaming world is going - and certainly Activision proved it by hiring me - is being willing to push and bend and move in a new direction of actually capturing the character and storytelling.
After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.
I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs.
It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.
To look in the eyes of audiences and see the kind of naughty glee that they got with being on the inside, the audience becomes your co-conspirators.
You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to deal with their various relationships.
Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.
I'm always taken aback by things that are successful that I think are just crap, and then I'm completely surprised when things I do end up being successful because you walk into things and you never know... It's just really remarkable.
There are a lot of people out there who offer roles to actors because they'll elevate their movie to a place the movie would never reach.
Partisan rancour and party politics and ideology have got in the way of compromise - and compromise is the only thing that has ever made politics successful.
No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story.
The less you know about me, the easier it is to convince you that I am that character on screen.
I think people love it when anybody acts bad; it's not particular to me.
Film is very condensed.
I actually have a number of lovely watches from the International Watch Company.
