As an actor the best thing you have is your imagination. You're not going to have all the experiences, but you draw on the things that you know. So I think you definitely use the things that you're familiar with to your advantage.

Tattoo on the lower back? Might as well be a bullseye.

I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.

It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.

I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.

The main thing about improvising is listening so if something happens that wasn't expected and you know your character, you know what has to happen in this scene, you can react to that in a way that's honest and it might take you in a different direction to go to the same place.