Career Catalyst Quotes

Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009.

I got Twin Peaks, and the part was basically written for me, which was a really big shock. I think everything really changed with the right teacher coming together, but before that I worked with Sondra Seacat; she's amazing and very spiritual, but I hadn't worked with her on specific roles. I just was in classes with her.

I needed to walk through the 'Idol' door to get to the rest of my career.

If I hadn't had that decade in the music industry and, perhaps more importantly, time to reach the point of being sick and disgusted with it, I wouldn't have written 'Kill Your Friends.' That book gave me my whole career.

I know for a fact the reason I'm an actor is because one, two, maybe three people when I was younger saw something that I did, in youth theater or some small play somewhere, and said, "You're good."

Star Trek is perhaps the best thing that ever happened to me, in a career sense.

It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.