Quotes

When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything.

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.

My only close-to-game-plan is to follow good writing. If the writing is in TV or if it's in theater or in film, that's it. It doesn't really matter what the medium is.

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

My wife changes the way that I dress. She makes me dress nicer than I want to dress. I feel like I perpetually dress like a 14-year-old boy, and she makes me stand up straight and wear clean clothes.

Costume people are always saying they don't have clothes big enough for me.

I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.

I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.

I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.

If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.

The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.

College wasn't something I saw myself doing.

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

Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.

The military community in particular, I think, could always be more supported, especially people who are being processed out of the military and trying to readjust to being civilians.

The most you play a character in the theater is, like, a couple months, and then you put it away.

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

I don't really have foresight as an actor as far as career trajectory - I just stick to no-brainer situations.

I've seen incredible acts of humanity in the military because people put themselves aside, and it's about the other person.

I don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.

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 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 own a guitar, a piano, a bass.

I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that audience doesn't typically go to the theater.

In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.