I Take The No-doughnut Pledge, And Then

I Personally Was Driven To Be An Actor For The Love Of Telling A Story. It Was Very Closely Linked To Being A Reader As A Kid And Being Transported By Literature And Art. It Had Nothing - Zero - To Do With Anything Resembling Fame.

I Remember Feeling A Huge Amount Of Anxiety And Worry And Pressure. At That Point I Was Headed Into Acting School. That Was 100 Percent The Only Thing I Thought I Wanted To Do. But Then I Got Through My First Year Of College, And I Was, Like, Humming And Rolling Around, Pretending To Be A Lion In Acting Classes At Nyu And Visiting Our Classmate Charlie Gregg At Harvard, Where He Was Actually Learning Things. So I Changed My Mind: I Decided I Actually Wanted A Different Kind Of Education, And That Was An Incredibly Freeing Idea.

I Live With Someone, Actor Peter Krause, Who Didn't Find An Interest In Being An Actor Until The Very End Of College. So My Message Is: There's So Much Freedom Left. There's No Ticking Clock. It's Just Not True.

I Think There's More Pressure To Stand Out In A Way That Is Measurable Externally. The Fame Culture Is Definitely Way Worse And Weirder Than It Was When We Were In High School.

I Take The No-doughnut Pledge, And Then I Break It.