For me, what grabs my attention about the project is usually the character immediately and then the story, and then the people that are involved.

You have to be able to sustain life. So moments are going to be lighter, but moments are also going to be heavier. I think just the understanding that life goes in a million different directions, and hopefully, if you find excitement by what these characters are experiencing and what they're living through, and you're impacted by them as human beings, then that's the sustainability of the show [This is Us].

I'm tough on the outside and soft on the inside [...] I'm really a shy guy.

I'm a homebody. I'd rather be in the kitchen cooking than hanging out in a bar.

In THE WHISPERS, I played a father, with an amazingly talented actor, Kyle Breitkopf. I've played a dad a lot, so it's nice again to be in that world [in This Is Us].

Some were getting married; some were getting divorced. People were in different places, but you had enough time on this earth to actually get somewhere, and I think that's the exciting thing about being 36 and in your mid-30s. You've been somewhere, and you're going to go somewhere. It's fun; it's exciting.

The older I get, the easier it is to just be present in the moment, and understand what a man is going through.