Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.

As an actor you want to explore something you haven't done.

I'm a stage actor. That is what I do.

When you play a character with power and energy, people lock into that and go, "Oh, this must be the guy."

Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.

I'm one of these people who would rather show you than tell you through the performance.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.