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The First Thing I Do, After I Talk With The Director And We Agree That I'm Going To Do The Role... My Jumping Off Point Is I Get A Picture Of What My 'look' Will Be. My Wardrobe Style, My Facial Hair, Glasses And All That Kind Of Stuff.

I Think The Whole Thing Is Kind Of Sad, Honestly, In The Same Way That Our Civilization - Particularly The Consumers Of Pop Culture - Has Grown So Used To An Emasculated, Bare-chested Leading Man That Something Like Simply Growing A Mustache Can Impress People.

You Know, Even Working Actors Can End Up Having A Lot Of Spare Time. And You Can Either Go Sit At The Starbucks And Wait For Your Agent To Call You, Or You Can Go Learn How To Build A Shaker Blanket Chest With Hand-cut Dovetails.

I Won't Read A New Graphic Comic Novel Until The Writer Has Completed The Entire Series. I Got Burned A Few Times When I Got Turned On To A Book, Plowed Through It Only To Find Out The Author Was In The Middle Of Writing The Next.

My Wife, The Actress Megan Mullally, Was An English Major At Northwestern University And Loves Fiction. Like So Many Things In My Life, She Curates Things For Me. For Example, I Have The Daunting Prospect Of Donna Tartt's "the Goldfinch" Waiting For Me When I Get Through My Current Reading Pile.