I was happier going back to my roots: training like men do in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Back home the guys in the gyms don't lift to look good; they're lifting to lift. They do it because they want to squat more and bench more.

What's funny is that male strippers don't wear thongs anymore. They wear flat backs.

I'm an actor that cares.

Acting was the only place that I ever felt like I belonged so went for it with everything I had.

There are these little towns outside of L.A. Once you get an hour and a half, two hours out, you get into these little, tiny towns that are almost like stuck in time.

I got to L.A. in 2000, when we were coming off the '90s: women looked like men and the men all looked like women.

I'm a nerd. But I'm not that hard-core.