In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.

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.

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 have a control problem. I hate the feeling of not being in control.

I think it's possible to be free in a big production. It's the eye of the director and the actor and the story.

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