I had a lot of fun playing football and basketball, but deep down, the chess match or cat-and-mouse game between the pitcher and batter in baseball really drew me in. It's a thinking man's game, and for me, nothing can compare to that.
I think that the actors that I work with feel safer with me. Because they know I understand what they go through and I don't see them as chess pieces.
Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.
The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.
When we were playing chess in the house, she would never let me win until I was good enough to beat her. It was always a competition. She was also always there for me. She was a very caring, loving mom, and the sacrifices she made to allow me to get to where I am today, I'll be forever in debt.
I could think six shots ahead. It's no different to playing chess.
I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.
Chess is not only knowledge and logic.
Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.
I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.
