I look at it scene-by-scene. Whether it's a historical character or not, whatever, on the page is one thing and delving into the history or somebody is one thing, but making something work for an audience in front of a camera is another exercise and you bring whatever authenticity you can to it.

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

Let’s focus on where you could end up, not where you were or are.

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.

Part of you wants to look over at the people watching and say, "Not bad, huh? Me and Clint Eastwood." But you have to get past that and just be an actor.

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

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