As the lead actor, you naturally get involved with a show.

If you keep changing for every person who tells you to, then who's going to be left? Why get the success and be somebody else?

You gotta think positive, you know. Make the obstacles opportunities. Thats my philosophy.

As the lead actor, you naturally get involved with a show.

My grandfather always told me, You know youre American first, but youre a Greek-American, which makes you a better American. It sounds sort of old-world and very sweet, but what he meant was that you should embrace those things that are most special and different about you.

Don't be embarrassed of who you are, they're gonna judge you no matter what you do.

When youre the lead actor in a drama, you have 2 1/2 months at the end of a season to do other projects, and everything has to get done in that time.