I always call performing live "giving the people the medicine," because when you're engaged in it, you can feel the sort of soul magic being exchanged between the performer and the audience.

I have a very healthy growth of both head and facial hair. People always want to attribute further superhuman powers to me. It's funny the way the audience really seems to want me, Nick the actor, to exhibit the same machismo as Ron Swanson.

I've had to learn and discipline myself that I'm much happier and much less depressed if I give myself a project. It's just that simple.

When we think of an actor, we think of a tanned, frosted-tipped, model-looking guy. We don't think of a plumber.

If I put down my tweeter machine for a minute, I actually can communicate with people. As an aside, astonishingly, I just started doing Twitter.

My education began in theater school, and it continues to this day. I just continued learning to be a better performer.

I was drinking a lot of bourbon. I was miserable. I was starting to get work, but it wasn't remotely satisfying. It was garbage compared to the theater I was doing.