George Martin is an incredible writer.
I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don’t even bother asking. Don’t bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.
Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.
I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what’s the fun in that?
I love animals. All animals. I wouldn’t hurt a cat or a dog – or a chicken, or a cow. And I wouldn’t ask someone else to hurt them for me. That’s why I’m a vegetarian.
I dress and eat like a fifth-grader, basically. I like sandwiches and cereal and hooded sweatshirts.
I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.
You can say no. You can not be the object of ridicule.
I think a lot of great male comic actors are introspective, quiet personalities, which I really admire. But they are really able to turn it up when the camera’s on.
My family had a habit of collecting creatures that didn’t always want to be pets. The first animal I can remember was a Lab named Zoe.
Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK to college graduates. It gives them a false sort of security.
I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.
I like playing the guy on the sidelines. They have more fun.
Bad guys are complicated characters. It’s always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don’t have a heroic code you have to live by.
I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn’t very strong, as opposed to film, but there’s been a shift in term of the quality of scripts. HBO has attracted a tremendous amount of great writing talent.
I don’t socialize. I’m kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely.
Animals on factory farms all face pain and fear, just like the animals we share our homes with, yet are repeatedly abused in shocking ways.
I love working with the same actors repeatedly. That happens a lot. It’s kind of inevitable, especially if you work with the same writers and directors and you start to form a company of actors. You gravitate towards each other.
That’s one of the things about theater vs. film – with theater, actors have a little more control, and one of the disappointing things about films is that once you’re done shooting, anything can happen, you know?
So I won’t say I’m lucky. I’m fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people. For some reason I found them, and they found me.