The reason I couldn't pay my rent was because I was one of the worst drinkers you'd ever seen in your life.

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

Sometimes people say things they don't mean, and you just have to let it go.

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.

I mean, everyone walks into the gym on day one skinny or fat. Arnold Schwarzenegger walked into the gym skinny at 15 or 16, and I was that way, too.

When I'm training for 'True Blood,' I don't eat any sugar except for some fruit here and there. So it's no sugar, no bread, no real carbs all day.

Acting was my first love.