Sometimes in life, we have to continue to learn the same lesson until it sticks.

When you do a television show in the States, you get the pilot, and then it's the great unknown. That's the way it is. It's this great leap of faith. It's the Russian roulette of art.

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.

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

Robert Rodriguez is a genius, and I'm a huge fan of his.

All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.

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.