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

I've been on the stage my entire life as an actor.

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

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.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

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.

I have been drumming my whole life.