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.

It's always very daunting to play someone who actually existed. You have to honor that, and be specific and accurate and try to make people believe that you're that guy, which is really hard.

I think improv training really orients you to character development, more than taking a Strasberg class or Meisner class. Not only is it about developing character really quickly, but it's also about being a good partner in the scene.

If you don't fight the system, you can either take advantage of the system or let the system take advantage of you.

I never went into acting to be able to scare everybody. If I'd wanted to frighten people, I could have joined the C.I.A.

People don't go to the movies to get the news, people don't go to the movies to learn a lesson. People go to the movie to get an emotional experience.

The most fascinating part of movies is the organism of the movie - it's such a bizarre thing to do, to make a movie. To see these people come together, band in unity, to create this thing that almost doesn't exist. It only exists because it's projected on a screen, but other than that, it's an illusion.