My biggest goal was - I thought, God, if I could just be a rep company member at the Arena Stage in Washington, D. C. and get to play a bunch of parts in a year! And now in my work everything is about promoting it. It's not about the doing of it! Everything is: You have to sell it, and they ask you to tweet about it or do photo shoots, even for the smallest job. There's an imbalance in terms of what is actually gratifying. The stuff that is gratifying is, like I said, the day of work and the doing of it.

The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.

I would like to be part of a family, however that looks. Family is really important to me.

If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now.

All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!

I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life.

As actors we always say that once the person in a scene gets what they want, the scene is over. It's resolved. But life is never resolved - you're always in the process.