Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.

Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.

At the end of whatever we're doing, I always feel like I want to go back and start over again because now I have a better sense of what it is. I feel that with everything. Like, if you're doing like a long run of a play and you're doing it seven shows a week, at the end of it, I want to go back and start from the beginning.

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.

Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.

It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.