Know your job and don't fake it. It looks easy, but the ones that make it look easy know what the hell they're doing. They may tell you around the dining room table that you're funny and you should be an actor, but until you challenge yourself by getting on a stage or in front of a camera, that's when your knowledge of the craft separates you from the pretenders.

There are a lot of girls that will try to hook up with you, then try to have your kid because they figure they're going to get all this money from you

Usually people in the acting business end up both in front of and behind the camera. Working for so long in the business, I know how it works. It's not too much of a challenge; the challenge is making it all come together, being in charge of a huge team of people that you trust.

These days, everyone is a writer, producer and movie star. You post something on the web, get enough hits, and suddenly you have TV show.

There's people that figure if they hang out with you, all of a sudden they're going to be successes. I've had two or three stalkers in my life

We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers

I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.