Actor

I put my best foot forward to make the best impression I could have, and it's been serving me well ever since.

I've done a lot of theater work that has been quite diverse. I feel very fortunate to have had many different people think of me in many different ways. So, as an actor that's all you - all I want is diversity. So far in film and television work I have done has not been as diverse, and I hope it grows to be.

I was thrown into a community production of 'Bye Bye Birdie' or something when I was a kid. I wanted to just build the sets, but I wasn't allowed to just build the sets unless I auditioned for the play. So I auditioned for the play and was thrown into the chorus. During the course of that I fell in love with it, and I never really turned back.

Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.

Making television is difficult. Making any art is difficult.

I think it's always a challenge to adapt a beautiful literary work into a fresh and alive film.

I love throwing myself into people who actually lived. It gives me a lot to research and a lot to know.

I don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.

I'm just grateful for the opportunities that have come my way.

I've found in my own life, if you try to struggle against what the universe is telling you, you set yourself up for more of a battle.

I find if you can look in the mirror and see something other than the face you see every day, it can free you up in terms of who you play. Wearing a mask can free you up.

I miss California... I love driving.

I was raised in a reform synagogue. I think we all bring with us a sense of when hard things happen to us, we find ourselves asking questions of why are these things happening to me at this time in my life. I think in that sense, there's a certain resonance that I carry. It's more of a spiritual resonance as opposed to particularly of Judaism.

With television, sometimes the writing is continuous and happening at every moment, and you'll get new pages at the last moment. We have to incorporate that into what it is that we're doing.

I'm glad to have work.

I came to New York to study theater and stayed and was doing exactly what I wanted to do. It's because of that work that some doors eventually opened for me.

With each job that you're given an opportunity to do, you're asked to use new parts of yourself and to figure the play out with other tools that you perhaps didn't use with the last show.

Someone who's asking questions of the clergy, that he doesn't have the answers to, I think that's a universal predicament.

Most of the people in New York are very often from somewhere else.

You never know what is going to happen in your life.