The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.

I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.

I always found something strangely paternal about the director-actor relationship. Actors want so much approval.

The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.

Yeah, September 11 happened and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.

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.

I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.