As An Actor, If You Want To

The Philosophical Underpinnings Of My Approach To Acting Are That There Are Universal Human Qualities, And That Every Character Is Actually Available Within Each One Of Us, That If We Tap Down Into That Universal Humanness, We Can Find Whatever Character It Is That We Need To Play Already There Within Ourselves, And It's Just A Matter Of Peeling Apart The Onion That Is You And Finding That Character Within You, Because Of This Universal Human Quality.

Even Small Acts Of Kindness Can Make A Profound Difference To Somebody Else.

When I Was In High School, I Liked To Pretend That I Was A Russian Foreign Exchange Student. I Would Do Things Like Go Into A Pizza Restaurant And Tell Them Id Never Had Pizza Before, And Theyd Bring Me Into The Kitchen And Show Me How To Make An American Pizza. Its Really Fun.

There Are Shows, A Lot Of Small Cable Shows Like Breaking Bad, Where In The General Population Nobody Watches Them Really, But Everybody In Los Angeles In The Industry Watches Them, And To Get A Small Role On A Show Like That Actually, In Some Respects, Advances Your Career More Than Having A Huge Hit Role On A Genre Show Because They Are Somehow Dismissed As A Secondary Market In This Industry

When You're Doing Lots And Lots Of Episodes And You're Playing The Same Character, It's Great Because You Really Get To Know The Character And It Becomes A Really Fast Style And You Find Subtleties In It.