I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.

It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.

I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.

I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.

It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.