Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails.

I know a lot of actors who've just gotten bitter because they did something and then nobody ever saw it or whatever.

One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.

Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

Grissom is a character who doesn't really want people poking around in his life. He likes to poke around in his work.

The beard is here because I got tired of shaving and Grissom, subsequently, got tired of shaving. Grissom, like any other 50-year-old man, is going through a series of mid-life changes. Who knows, he may start drinking.