I had, like, two goals in my career: One was to try to get into 'Second City.' When I moved to Chicago, my goal was to try to work at 'Second City.' And beyond that, my goal was to make enough money as an actor to not do anything else but act, not have to go and wait tables again.

For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.

The ability to compromise and having the ability to laugh at ourselves is huge and works well for me.

Fool me once, strike one. But fool me twice ... strike three.

Whenever I'm offered something, I always read the script and meet the director. I still appreciate just being considered.

You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person.

I don't want to be pretentious about, "yes, I need to move in to the more dramatic roles and express myself and prove to everyone that I'm capable of doing it," it really isn't that, I think that's a bad reason to choose roles. It's more like, who would I be working with and would they be fun to do and entertaining to watch, is it an interesting story or character.