It's a really incredible time to be working in television.

I like to do my research, get in the right mental state for the person I'll be portraying. A lot of time, it's just incorporating a lot of what that person would be into, into my daily routine.

Everyone should have cheat days or days off. You need to balance the unhealthy with the healthy.

Every actor needs someone to take a chance on them.

My girlfriend doesn't think I'm funny at all.

Luckily, I didn't get too beaten up before someone gave me a shot, but there were times when I was living on friends' couches and eating five-dollar subs from Subway almost every meal.

My friends and family definitely helped me with the biggest obstacle in my life, which was just staying in L.A. long enough to really give it a shot.

A lot of my inspiration comes from the movies and TV, watching other people doing things that I one day hope to have the opportunity to do.

Just being the first person to bring the character to life is really fun and exciting.

It's nice to be playing a character who's never had a live-action version before.

It's better to leave them wanting more than to be the show where people are like, "Oh, that's still on the air?"

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

Nothing inspires people more than reckless acts of courage.

My daddy used to maintain, if you have to use ten-dollar words, what you're trying to say isn't worth a dime.

I will not die an unlived life...I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me...I choose to risk my significance.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

A contrarian at heart, I am often guided by what I disagree with and don't want.

I find that teaching and the students keep life going, and I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never.

Someone got killed up here.... It was outside. A tall man. He had one leg longer’n the other. And a beard. He was probably a hunter." "How’d you know all that?" "I just trod on ‘im.