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

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

I'm grew up a huge fan of The Three Stooges and Monty Python, so somebody getting slapped in the face with a fish, or falling out of a chair, or running into a door, or tripping over their own feet and eating it, is all stuff I find really, really funny.

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.

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.

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 have always been politically active and vaguely dissatisfied with the state of news, but I wasn't sure why.