Like My Dad, I Have A Christmas

The Best Part Of Getting To Do What You Like Is Just Doing It. That Doesn't Have To Do With Being Famous Or Even Successful Or Even Powerful. I See People In Life Who Are Just Doing A Job And Seem To Be Having A Good Time. And That's The Trick.

I've Spent A Lot Of Time Wondering, What's Going To Happen? What's Going To Happen? I Try Not To Allow Myself To Do That Much Anymore. I Think Ive Gotten More Comfortable With The Unknown.

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 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 Think What My Hope Is Is That The Only Downside Of Having A Steady Job On Television Is, I Think For All Actors, There's A Piece, There's Some Adrenaline, And Part Of The Love Of The Job Is Not Knowing What's Coming Next, And The Variety.