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

I enjoyed living in Chicago and doing plays for little or no money. I never actually thought that I would leave Chicago, originally. I wasn't one of those people that had a plan to pack up the van and drive out to Hollywood. I didn't want to.

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.

I'm equally terrified of both comedy and drama. The only thing I'm really comfortable with is action.

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

I don't pick my roles by genre; that's kind of silly.

I have been acting for over 20 years and I started in the smallest little theater that you can possibly imagine and then I very slowly built myself to this point. So it is never like there is this real sharp change or something that really startled me. It has just been very gradual.