If you are going to be on TV for however many years, you want to make sure that you have writers that are giving you something to work with, and I got that in spades.

A lot of times the characters I play tend to be kind of loners or they don't have best friends or best buddies.

I certainly don't want to have too many pre-conceived notions before I show up because then you might be cutting yourself off from the real lessons of what is going on.

When you put your costume on and you get your hair and your makeup done [for a role] and you stare in the mirror you feel like a different person.

Theater is the best. That's where you get the work done. You just really get in there and figure something out about a story or a character or life or the world. That's where magic stuff happens.

Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

There's nothing routine about 'Boardwalk Empire.' It's like being in some secret society where they call you up and tell you where to go: 'Meet us at the corner of such and so.'