Most of the time, actors respond to the thing thats so far from who they are. We all want to play the serial killer and the ex-con.
I'm a workaholic, so I read everything that's out there.
With TV, you don't know, but you can build it as you go and bring some things to life. It's malleable, changeable and flexible.
TV [series] is a six-year decision. It's not four or five weeks. If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so whatever.
The transition from sports into acting was something I got blindsided by. I had a full scholarship to law school. I had a different life planned. I started a business, and I was all ready to go. I suddenly got in a local movie, just to say to my kids one day, "Yeah, your old man was in a movie," and I caught the bug.
If your heart, head and gut are telling you the same thing, then you owe it to yourself to chase it.
It makes it [work] a lot easier when you like what you do. It's easy when you're working and making money doing it. It's hard when you're not. That's when that gets challenged.
