I think what makes so many other actors miserable is focusing completely on making other plans. They’re obsessed with their haircut and their headshot and their agent, their IMDB profile or whatever.

I’ve been working steadily as an actor since around 1998. I wasn’t well known in the public, but I was a dependable working journeyman.

When I was in fourth grade, we were learning vocabulary words, and the word nonconformist came up. The teacher said, “It’s somebody who whatever everybody is doing, they do the opposite.” I remember raising my hand and saying, “Mrs. Christiansen, I would like to be a nonconformist.”

I always drastically changed my look for each role. It’s gotten a little tedious in real life, also, because there’s no hiding.

You know, it’s hard to beat bacon at anytime of day. But I also am a big fan of corned beef hash.

I learned as a young man that I don’t write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a laugh. I call myself a humorist.

I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that’s what has led us to this place where, as we’ve developed technology.

I’m quite excited to not play a Xena type character – it’s probably closer to me than any character I’ve ever played.

I come from a family of fishermen. Fishing is very important to us. We don’t hunt. We’re not gun folk.

I’ve split my life between a few different disciplines.