Everyone's different. I mean, some people write journals for their characters and stuff, but that was never really my area.

Pretty much any time in my career where I worked on television it was usually because of some financial woes or something.

Everyone's different. I mean, some people write journals for their characters and stuff, but that was never really my area.

I was often getting hired to play sociopaths and psychopaths and stuff, which is really funny.

Basically, if I ever went and worked on a crime drama or something, it was usually just for the work.

I feel that as a writer and as a performer too. I never really thought about backstory for characters. It was much more of a musical approach: You learn a melody, and then you sing it, I suppose, or you find a rhythm or a cadence that works for the material. And then it's sort of about hitting that note correctly and finding those beats.

Characters for me are born on page one and they die on page 100.