I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.

I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.

The best advice comes from people who don't give advice.

Offers dried up after a few years and it was like I had fallen off the radar.

Directors like William Friedkin (Killer Joe), Steven Soderbergh (Magic Mike) and Lee Daniels (The Paperboy) got in touch with me and wanted me to be part of their films. That was a whole new chapter for me. I didn’t chase any of those films and it made me think that I was right to take a chance, say no to the kind of thing I had grown tired of doing, and wait until something good came around. And it did.

I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.

As an actor for hire, my job is to do some pre-production work for myself. Then my job is to show up and give the best performance I can.