Actor

Characters can stay with you.

If you go back to Season 1 of 'The Office,' Steve Carell's character is a lot different.

Nobody really thinks they're evil.

No matter what, you can be a big kid in life.

I always look for projects that are risky and ones that want to do something unique. If audiences don't like it, you feel good knowing that you were brave enough to do something original. If they do like it, you feel like everyone is rewarded, because we all got to see something new.

I wouldn't say I'm a shy person, but I like my privacy.

If you had special powers, it wouldn't be all fun and games. There would be regrets for things you've done.

I said no to a lot of superhero stuff. I never expected to say yes to that kind of stuff.

Whenever you're playing somebody who is, by all accounts, rotten, don't focus on the rotten stuff. That stuff will take care of itself. It's already in the script; the audience is already experiencing it without you having to add an extra feel of evil. Just play them like regular people.

F. Murray Abraham is an incredible actor and has been for a long time. I've been watching him as I grew up.

Whenever you have a role where you don't get to know anything about the character, you have to invent it yourself. You have to feel like it came from somewhere.

We all want to just want to live a simple life, but nobody really knows how to do that.

I think the Mary J. Blige persona wouldn't lend itself to the big kid persona, but that's exactly who she is. She has such a serious life and childhood and then such a dramatic one, a successful R&B singer. But she's just stayed this kid for life and stuff.

In a way, I felt like I arrived before I was making money at it, because I'd established that I just wanted to act.

When you have a job you know you'd do for free, it takes a lot of the pressure away to be successful at it. So if it's doing theater in New York or teaching acting, I'm down for all of it.

When you can surprise yourself, you're truly acting.

It's not terrifying to watch 'Mindhunter,' necessarily, but it's just unsettling. You can find Aileen Wuornos just talking to a camera. It's hard to watch. Her eyeballs, they are just terrifying.

I think 'Mindhunter' has allowed me to get a chance to do larger projects.

There's a lot of sets where morale is low; people are just a little too mellow, and that's infectious. So when someone calls 'Action,' you have to spike your energy up and fight against the current of the room.

There's been some people I've overheard talking about 'Mindhunter.' I'll lean in and say, 'Hey, I haven't seen it yet. Is it any good?' And they'll say, 'Yeah, you should go check it out.'