As time passes, I feel more and more a sense of acting being a fundamental part of who I am.

I'm very focused on "Dexter" right now. I want to make it as good of a show as we can.

So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles.

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

I think Dexter is a man who ... a part of himself is very much frozen, or arrested in a place that is pre-memory, pre-conscious, pre-verbal. Something very traumatic happened to him, he doesn't know what that is. And I think on some level he wants to know. He denies his humanity, he describes himself as someone who is without feeling, and yet I think that he maybe suspects - in a way that maybe isn't even conscious yet when we first meet him - that he is in fact a human being.

I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.