If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that's their fault - not yours. And it's OK to be a decent human being in this life.

When you try to worry about missteps and all that kind of stuff, that's not the healthiest way to be.

I have been drumming my whole life.

I had never really been around cards.

For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy thing to do.

People need to know you have to walk through that rejection, and it's only going to fuel you. If you can somehow look at it like it's a gift, you're just going to regroup, and work harder, and go deeper. So just embrace it.

One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters.