I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that audience doesn't typically go to the theater.

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.

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.

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

Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.

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

I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.