I started to realize, a lot of times if you go into your memory, your sense memory, you know more than you think you do, from having watched and listened.

Sometimes you have to say, "No. This is my space." If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.

In drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

You either get better, or you don't progress.

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

I was coming from a theater background. I had an obsession with classic film and cool, interesting, intelligent television. I didn't really understand the way the mainstream television industry worked. I just thought "The wire is so good that it's going to be a huge hit, and we'll get awards up the yin-yang forever." That's what I thought!

From the time I became an actor my whole approach was to try to do as many different things as possible. It never occurred to me that I might be typecast.