Good Scripts And Interesting Stories Are Hard

I've Never Felt Like My Career Has Been On Fire.

I Was 12 When My Parents Told Me We Were Moving To Lebanon. I Remember Thinking, 'leba-who?' I Had Absolutely No Concept Of The Place.

Regardless Of The Weight Of The Role, I Feel Like The Job Is Always Kind Of The Same. Who Is This Person? What's This Guy Here, What's He Trying To Say? And What's The Volley With All These Other People Around Him? So I Don't Feel Like That Part Of It Changes. I Have Not Reached The Point - If There's A Point You Reach As An Actor Where It's, "oh, I Got This Figured Out, I Know How To Do This". But I Am Happy To Say That The Primary Building Blocks Of Where You Start, At Least, There Is A Little Bit Of Sameness To That. And That's Always Nice.

When I Look Back On My Childhood, I Think Of That Short Time In Beirut. I Know That Seeing The City Collapse Around Me Forced Me To Grasp Something Many People Miss: The Fragility Of Peace.

There's Times When I'll See A Show, Or Something Cooking On Tv, And Think, "that Can Really Be Fun When It's Working." But It's A Grind. I Did That At Nbc, It Was Five Days A Week. I Was Doing Talk Soup And Later At The Same Time. It's A Hard Job, More Difficult Than People Realize.