MARC BLUCAS

Every kid in America dreams of playing in the big leagues and they don't, just because. It's not because they blew out their knee. It's just because they didn't make it.

Team sports, there's always some kind of sacrifice happening... A team, if we lose, if Michael Jordan has a bad night, you hang it on him a little bit... but if you lose as a tennis player, you have no one to blame but yourself, and that's a different beast.

You see so many different personalities and mind-sets in the world of sports, just like you do with actors.

It makes it [work] a lot easier when you like what you do. It's easy when you're working and making money doing it. It's hard when you're not. That's when that gets challenged.

The transition from sports into acting was something I got blindsided by. I had a full scholarship to law school. I had a different life planned. I started a business, and I was all ready to go. I suddenly got in a local movie, just to say to my kids one day, "Yeah, your old man was in a movie," and I caught the bug.

TV [series] is a six-year decision. It's not four or five weeks. If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so whatever.

I'm a workaholic, so I read everything that's out there.

Most of the time, actors respond to the thing that's so far from who they are. We all want to play the serial killer and the ex-con.

If your heart, head and gut are telling you the same thing, then you owe it to yourself to chase it.

If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so, whatever. With TV, it's six years.

You see so many different personalities and mind-sets in the world of sports, just like you do with actors.

If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so, whatever. With TV, it's six years.

Most of the time, actors respond to the thing that's so far from who they are. We all want to play the serial killer and the ex-con.

Team sports, there's always some kind of sacrifice happening... A team, if we lose, if Michael Jordan has a bad night, you hang it on him a little bit... but if you lose as a tennis player, you have no one to blame but yourself, and that's a different beast.

Every kid in America dreams of playing in the big leagues and they don't, just because. It's not because they blew out their knee. It's just because they didn't make it.

I'm a workaholic, so I read everything that's out there.

TV [series] is a six-year decision. It's not four or five weeks. If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so whatever.

With TV, you don't know, but you can build it as you go and bring some things to life. It's malleable, changeable and flexible.

If your heart, head and gut are telling you the same thing, then you owe it to yourself to chase it.

It makes it [work] a lot easier when you like what you do. It's easy when you're working and making money doing it. It's hard when you're not. That's when that gets challenged.

The transition from sports into acting was something I got blindsided by. I had a full scholarship to law school. I had a different life planned. I started a business, and I was all ready to go. I suddenly got in a local movie, just to say to my kids one day, "Yeah, your old man was in a movie," and I caught the bug.