The secret to comedy is not playing the comedy, but actually playing the situation, playing the drama of it.
My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I’d never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the ‘Buffy’ and ‘Angel’ writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.
It’s so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there’s laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It’s viable and mainstream.
I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.
I am one of the lucky few who is successful in their career, and I’m really enjoying myself.
I’m living in Los Angeles, I’m in films and I’m on television, and I’m working with actors and telling stories. I’m living the fantasy. My worst day is a great day.
When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
I’m not a big prop actor.
When you slick back your hair, you get a really good idea of just how melon-like your head actually is.
There’s only one spot in history for the first ever of anything.
It’s a thrill to be a fan amongst fans.
It’s hard to shake a stick at success.
I relate to those characters – and any character I play – in as much as I put myself in their positions and feel how I would personally deal with their experiences.
I think about my own daily choices every day in terms of how to find happiness.
Somebody once said that you can never act and be another person; you’re only acting facets of yourself. I think there’s a lot of truth in that.
I’m not a famous celebrity of any kind. I’m a guy from Edmonton who’s got a great job and I’m loving it.
What draws me to roles, I think, are moments – moments that define character, where so much more of the story is told in just a moment – a look, a line, a short scene, but something that speaks a volume, something that speaks to me.
I think maybe, if I could be a Canadian super hero, I’d have some kind of freezing power and some sort of maple syrup weapon. Could be a little sticky.
When you work on a soap opera, that’s three years of you working every day. There was no time to do anything other than the soap opera – you’re locked in.
I slowly came to realize that this job of being an actor, you spend most of your time looking for work. That is your job. Your job is auditioning. You spend very little of your time actually working.
I have jobs that I’ve preferred more than others simply because I’ve gotten to meet and make friends with great people. I’ve pulled at least one very close friend from every project I’ve done.