It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.

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.

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

I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?

Dexter's a unique killer in that his father saw his dark impulses, shined a light on them, and told Dexter that he saw them, he accepted them, that Dexter is good and that he is worthy of love. And I think that's what enables him to focus his energies in this unique way.