If you're onstage and you're improvising and nothing's happening, people are racing for the door. But the director can go shopping later and pick up pieces and moments and insert them.

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

I was initially a leading man, but only on television.

I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.

You don't really have time to do other than what's written. It's very rigid. Shows have a certain rhythm that nobody wants disturbed. So a lot of that doesn't take place on television, at least the television I was doing at the time when I first started.

A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.

You make the choice. You look at each scene and you make sure that this is not a person deceiving people.