The Mood Was Terrible. You Could See

I Sailed A Bit As A Child, But It Wasn't Until I Was Around 40, When I Was Halfway Through Patrick O'brian's 'master And Commander' Novels, That I Had The Sudden Epiphany That I Had To Go Sail On A Square-rig Ship.

Some Of The Best Auditions I've Ever Had Have Been When My Agent Called And Said, "they Want You 20 Minutes Ago, In An Office In Century City, To See You For Something." It's Actually Sometimes A Really Good Thing. I Don't Have Time To Second-guess Myself, I Don't Have Time To Overthink Things, And I Don't Have Time To Get Bogged Down In Stuff. I'm Not Sitting There Thinking For A Week And A Half, Before I'm Supposed To Go In Front Of A Network President To Do Something. That Just Gives You Time To Be Nervous.

When I First Came To Hollywood, I Used To Dream Of Doing Films And Escaping Television.

Oh, I’m Nerdy About Science Fiction And Fantasy And Graphic Novels And Reading, And I’m Nerdy About Board Games. My Favorite Board Game Is A Board Game I’m Working On Right Now. It’s A Game Of Napoleonic Era Naval Warfare, And It’s Going To Be Fun.

I've Done My Share Of Reading About Abraham Lincoln, Throughout My Life, And He Wasn't Always Carved In Stone. He Was A Human Being. He Was A Very Thoughtful, Self-educated, Complex, Magnanimous Human Being, Who Was Very, Very Strong, Very Smart And Very Canny, With A Very Strong Sense Of What Was Right And What Was Wrong. Through All That, He's Become An Icon, Over The Years, And Some Of His Warmth And Humanity Has Been Lost. You Don't Tend To Think Of Lincoln As This Warm, Funny Person, But He Was.