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

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

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.

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.

Television is a big roulette table on so many levels. That's all it is for actors.

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

I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.