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“To get a job as a blackjack dealer, you have to be able to count very quickly. Obviously, you need to do at least math, adding up to 21 very quickly.”
“The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.”
“I like auditioning. I like working on material. I just love working. I like the chance to work on material. Sometimes it helps to not be going into a room cold and to know people. I've spent a lot of years getting to know people in the business, and that really helps. It depends. You can have some pretty terrible auditions.”
“Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I began to realize that you went to school for it. I wasn't a bright kid, so it took me a long time to figure that out.”
“I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.”
“My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.”
“I'm terrible at languages. I'm trying to learn Spanish. I tried to learn French as a kid.”
“For me, university was a bit of a rebellious streak. I love teachers but I'm inherently a bit of an anarchist and don't trust you because you're my teacher. Somewhere around my second or third year, I realized as an artist that it's up to us to choose our path, and there's nothing wrong with being given many different tools to put in your tool bag.”
“There was a small window when I wanted to be an astronaut. It may have coincided with not getting cast in a high school play.”
“I was fired from an NBC sitcom called 'Friends With Benefits.' I was wrong for the part from the beginning, didn't even want to audition, and kept thinking, 'This isn't funny at all.'”
“My dad was a journalist. One great trip we took was to Israel. We went there and drove through the whole country, and it was pretty incredible. We went to the Philippines and saw the beauty of that country but also what poverty really looks like. That had a profound effect on me.”
“One of my first jobs was on a show called 'Cold Case.'”
“What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.”
“I've definitely gotten a few jobs by pretending like I knew what I was talking about.”
“I got a part in a play in 10th grade, and that changed everything, woke up my love of theater.”
“My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.”
“By the time I got 'Suits,' I thought my time in Hollywood was coming to an end.”