As an actor playing a character, I can't come in with my judgement, or else I can't play it honestly. My judgement has to be reserved for later.

Having the audience know more than the characters is precisely where you want to be in terms of drama. You can engage them much more when that is the case.

I'm so super interested in what it is to stir things up and to listen to people.

I don't speak a lot when I get home, during the season. It's great. I just get to sit and listen. My wife gets to tell me whatever she wants to tell me, and I don't talk. I'm too exhausted to talk, so I'm a very good listener.

I am very interested in asking questions, and I am very interested in being involved in shows that ask people to think and feel.

The biggest compliment? I would say, "You helped me." I think in terms of life, not just with acting. But certainly with storytelling, being able to hold up a mirror and allow someone to relate to a story and see something in themselves to the extent that you're in service to another human being - I don't know why else we're here. To know that I helped someone would be the biggest compliment I could ever receive.

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do.