I always thought, if you're gonna do TV, you want to play a straight, solid, pillar-of-the-show kind of guy.

I've always been, in games, the bad guy. If there was ever cops and robbers I was always a robber.

My day job is acting - I wouldn't direct something if I didn't feel passionate about it.

If I were a teacher, I would like to teach freshman English - so I could be the Robin Williams type in Dead Poets Society. I wanna be that guy. I couldn't teach seniors because they'd be smarter than me.

I never thought I'd be one of those guys who gets recognized.

In L.A., if you're in improv, and you're on those stages, all the big agents and managers and producers are watching those shows. They're not flying to Chicago to see the show. People are booking jobs off the stages in L.A. who aren't more talented than the guys in Chicago. But the most guys book out of L.A., and the second is New York.

I was in a two-person show [with Oliver Ralli] called the Midwesterners where we wrote all of our own stuff and we traveled the country with it. That's what eventually led me to L.A.