Actor

Once I started working as a professional actor, it was like, 'Bye-bye waiting tables, bye-bye bartending, bye-bye all the cliched jobs actors do.' But after a year of not getting work, there's this really difficult conflict, like, 'Do I have to go back to being a waiter when people recognize me from a show?'

Public perception is obviously important to an actor's career.

Once I started working as a professional actor, it was like, 'Bye-bye waiting tables, bye-bye bartending, bye-bye all the cliched jobs actors do.' But after a year of not getting work, there's this really difficult conflict, like, 'Do I have to go back to being a waiter when people recognize me from a show?'

Public perception is obviously important to an actor's career.

In TV, you may think your character's one thing for two episodes, and then the third episode it could be something different.

Sports movies are a genre that I really respond to, but they can be done really poorly and really fall short. The good ones are just so good and inspiring and make you feel good.

I'm trying to think how I impressed my wife. We had an on-stage kiss, and I really went for it. Because I liked her. Usually you can get away with it being just technical, but it was a problem when I ended up kissing my wife on the set. I'd say I stopped acting and kissed her on set.

It's funny how when your kids get sick, they get even cuter when they have a stuffed nose and they mouth breathe.

Just because you get a show and it gets on the air doesn't mean jack. It certainly means that you'll be considered for stuff, but you've got to fight and claw to get every job.

When a character does something appalling but you still want to root for them, I find that the most exciting challenge to play, if you can pull it off. You're not supposed to like it, but you can't help it.

If you don't know how to play hockey, learn. If you quit, get back out there.

I think a lot of guys you see - there seems to be this thing where you can have all the fun in the world, but in the end of the day, there's no one to share it with.

It's just nice to be employed.

To be perfectly honest, I've gotten attention from gay men for a long time.

I kind of go where the wind blows, and TV has just been how I make a living so far.

I grew up around a lot of feminine energy.

I played the guitar in ninth grade. My sister's friend went on a semester abroad, and she left the guitar at our house for nine months.

The idea of doing a tennis movie is truly unbelievable to me. Well, first of all, they don't really exist.

At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter.

Boston is so laced with jerseys that you can be dressed head to toe in team apparel and no one will look twice.