Meat is a big deal in my life. I do love breakfast food, but I don’t think that’s extraordinary. I’m a normal American. We love eggs and meat and potatoes and gravy.
When I got my job on ‘Parks,’ it was so dreamy, kind of unfathomable. I didn’t think a job that excellent could exist for me.
Branding is quite an important thing. As an artist, you want to be able to explore facets of yourself.
I always had a lot of confidence in my work and the unique flavor I like to bring to my characters, but you know I’m not a huge dreamer.
I have a Kenwood charcoal grill. In our house, if anybody is cooking, it’s me. I love making burgers. I love making pork tenderloin. Lamb chops I do on the grill a lot. But you just can’t beat brats.
It’s funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.
I’m quite excited to not play a Xena type character – it’s probably closer to me than any character I’ve ever played.
For years I drove a big Ford F250 pickup. That was my ride because two-thirds of my work was wood work, and I’m always driving up to Northern California, where I harvest salvaged trees.
If you’re an original thinker, you are going get told ‘no’ a lot, and you have to be able to hear ‘no’ many times from the bankers and trust that at some point, someone is going to recognize that you are an artist and not a can of soda.
I like to play women who are not strong at all, because, there’s certainly plenty of myself that is no kind of a warrior.
I really thought that I’d be doing Shakespeare, honest to God. I did not foresee the whole action television thing. That was God’s joke.
I keep having these bros come up to me and say, “I used to watch you when I was a fetus,” and I just want to kill them.
I think it’s fascinating that I receive attention for what people perceive to be a level of manliness or machismo, when amongst my family of farmers and paramedics and regular Americans, I’m kind of the sissy in my family.
My family has schoolteachers and librarians, and I think people who teach are probably some of our greatest American heroes. Certainly, underpaid and unsung.
I always call myself a “student” of the guitar.
Children are so egocentric – they want to watch their lives, and not yours.
I feel it’s important to point out that I’ve earned my humility by being a jackass – like, I trip and fall on my face and say, “Oh, right. Don’t think you’re a big shot, because you’ve got a bloody nose now.” So it’s hard to say.
My career is inexplicable to me. So far I’ve just been not getting fired despite being myself.
It was on a van ride home from the movie set that everything came together. I realized I had to get off Twitter. It just struck me that I couldn’t stop everyone else from doing it, but I could certainly stop myself.
Whenever I have a stubborn position on something, I take a deep breath and swallow myself.