Actor

College wasn't something I saw myself doing.

What is a struggle is that acting isn't a place where you go to work and you do that thing. There aren't set boundaries, like an office, where you go and work. For me, the work is always on my mind.

I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.

In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.

I want to show that theater isn't just talking about feelings or people wearing tights.

Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.

In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.

I wish I could pull shorts off. My wife tells me that I just can't. But that's okay. I'm tall, I can do other things, like change light bulbs.

I studied Morse code.

When I happened to get into school, I felt like I could approach it as aggressively as things in the military.

My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.

I feel like I have to move violently once a day, or I'll lose my mind.

I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.

I'm not fashionable.

By the time I got into Juilliard, I was working at a Target distribution warehouse. It didn't make anything, it just shipped things, and my job was just to stand there and look at the security codes on the back of trucks and see if they would lock, and check them in.

I like everything I do to have some kind of meaning.

There's such an emphasis on having a character be likable. I don't think it would be helpful if I worried about that. I mean, not everyone's likable.

The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.

You have to be forward-moving and able to balance a lot of things at the same time. I attribute a lot of that to the Marine Corps and Juilliard both.

I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.