I think there is certainly luck and fate involved in any career of any kind. In show business, maybe it's even more true.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are thinking less and behaving more.

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

It was really executed well, from the art direction to the wardrobe to everyone else. And I have to say, two really exceptional directors who did three each. Roxann [Dawson] did the first three and Jeremy [Webb] did the second three. And I think they really were very meticulous in getting the right tone because it is both. It isn't dour and it isn't grim, but it's not a romp either. It's truthful and it has room for both of those things.

Good decisions don't make life easy, but they do make it easier.