All you have to do to be a camera actor is tell the truth.

Abraham Lincoln is the guy who could never be elected today, but whom we desperately wish we could elect.

The live audience is a blind date. The camera is a hungry lover. One wants to be wined and dined and seduced and then decide where the evening will go. The other knows how it wants to be touched, wants it now and can damn well tell if you are lying about it. Both are fickle. Both feel good. Depends on your mood.

Lincoln could be on the moon. He's still Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln is resolute, honest, has the best interest of the nation at heart, and he's as ugly as homemade Sunday sin, so he is modest, too. I'd vote for that in an undead heartbeat.

If someone asked for advice on being an actor I'd say "Don't. It's a hard life." And if they walked away I'd be happy to have spared them years of misery.

Abraham Lincoln was a melancholy man, so he had a dark side that appeals to horror fans.