Nicholas D'Agosto
Nicholas D'Agosto

I'm realizing for the first time, your life goes on while you're trying to pursue this career. I saw my career as everything. But you have this life, too. Living your life fully, you come to know yourself better. You'll find the place for it.

Nicholas D'Agosto
Nicholas D'Agosto

I had never done anything like I had done in 'Masters of Sex.' Those are some very adventurous scenes.

Nicholas D'Agosto
Nicholas D'Agosto

In the summer after sixth grade, I took a class at St. Robert Bellarmine. My first role, I was the villain in a play, and I forgot all my lines. I think I cried my way through the performance.

Nicholas D'Agosto
Nicholas D'Agosto

I think... as an actor, you never want to overspeak about something because, frankly, you want people to be excited about it but still have relatively low expectations so that people will feel better about it.

Nicholas D'Agosto
Nicholas D'Agosto

I'm growing very talented at watching blood and guts on screen because I have zero emotional response.

Nicholas D'Agosto
Nicholas D'Agosto

I think one of the hardest things about 'Final Destination 2' is that nothing's immediate about it.

Nicholas D'Agosto
Nicholas D'Agosto

You wake up one day and realize, 'Now, I'm a veteran.' You just wake up one day, and you're like, 'I'm 35, and I've been doing this now for 13 years.'

Nicholas D'Agosto
Nicholas D'Agosto

You know that thing when you're not asleep but you're not awake, and you can't move your body? I had that kind of nightmare, and I felt like all my teeth were crumbling in my mouth. Now I have this fear of all my teeth being knocked out of my mouth somehow!

Nicholas D'Agosto
Nicholas D'Agosto

When I meet a girl, I just sort of do really over-exaggerated terrible dance moves... a lot of hip movements. I get them laughing, and get them to feel pity for me, and then they like me!

Nicholas D'Agosto
Nicholas D'Agosto

The acting of the '50s is really stylized, so you're not really getting a lot of authentic, everyday characterization of people.

Nicholas D'Agosto
Nicholas D'Agosto

I wanted to be a priest when I was really young.

Nicholas D'Agosto
Nicholas D'Agosto

When I was 17, I had a small part in the movie 'Election,' which shot in Omaha, Nebraska. I was really naive at the time; I really didn't know what a big deal it was.

Nicholas D'Agosto
Nicholas D'Agosto

I moved out after college, and I started working right away, and I've been working ever since.

Nicholas D'Agosto
Nicholas D'Agosto

I like going to museums and stuff, but I also like going out and doing lots of physical activity like camping and hiking. I like doing stuff that I've never done before. Curiosity is a big thing. Usually it means that people are intelligent and that they want to learn stuff about the world.

Nicholas D'Agosto
Nicholas D'Agosto

The business can be frustrating. For me, Omaha is a rounding foundation. I was raised in a very faith-filled household, very hardworking. It made me aware of what privilege is. And it's a place I can go back to, spend time with nieces and nephews, celebrate the things that have nothing to do with the hubbub of Hollywood.

Nicholas D'Agosto
Nicholas D'Agosto

'Heroes' was such a big production. When I was there in the second season, it had been expanded so much. Fans of the series will remember, and many of them were upset about it, but they had expanded so many new characters that they were actually running two different units.

Nicholas D'Agosto
Nicholas D'Agosto

Every time a film comes together, usually the studio executives come up for a day to the set. If you're out of town, they'll fly in or wherever you are - the cast, the director, the producers - all get together and have a big dinner and celebrate the fact that we're about to start shooting.

Nicholas D'Agosto
Nicholas D'Agosto

I've had nine failed pilots. I've been doing TV for a long time.

Nicholas D'Agosto
Nicholas D'Agosto

I can get incredibly angry, to the point that I get ashamed of my actions.

Nicholas D'Agosto
Nicholas D'Agosto

At the end of the day, an actor has to just play what's in front of him.