When I First Came To Hollywood, I

I Don't Really Collect The Mementos. I Do Steal Books Off Of Sets. If There's A Library On The Set, You Can Bet That I'll Steal Away With A Book Or Two.

I Grew Up 60 Minutes Way From Richmond, In Charlottesville, Virginia And, As A Child, I Was Obsessed With The Civil War. I Used To Do Re-enactments And All That Stuff.

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.

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.

To Me, The Amc Brand Is Great Storytelling - They Call It Slow-burn Storytelling.