It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.

I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too.

I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick.

I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.

A ghostly side note Soldier boy Miller played a Lucifer-like character in the final two episodes of Joan of Arcadia. Coincidence I do find it strangely poetic, ... that a character who shows up on a show about God to play something kind of satanic winds up in the very last two episodes of that show, and then appears in the show that replaces that show on its exact time and night the following season.

My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV.

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.