I actually do my own renovations. I designed and built a 100-foot split-cedar rail fence to enclose my property. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Don't recommend doing it alone. I also built a 100-square-foot back porch. Again, don't recommend doing it alone.

I'm very shy in real life; I can't really hit on girls.

I don't think an actor's job is to be recognized. I think an actor's job is to facilitate the writing in a way that changes the way people think. No other business does that.

Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.' I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am.

My role as a producer is very specific. It's maintaining the creative truthfulness, day in and day out.

I could never say I'm going to do bigger and better things because that would negate what I've already accomplished, and I don't want to do that.

My mom raised us three boys by herself on welfare. It's not worse than anybody else's life.