It'll be interesting to see if I ever have to play a typical, bland romantic interest. I'm quirky, and playing it kind of straight and bland doesn't interest me a whole lot.
I've gotten a lot of compliments on the 'Criminal Minds' guy. I guess it's because the look of that character is so different from what people expect of me.
I was a hard fit at a young age. I didn't make sense as an ingenue or a leading love-interest lady.
Anthony Hopkins says you just keep acting. Do it all the time and eventually it will happen. He got his break, after all, by taking a role nobody else wanted. A cannibal!
I asked, 'What is this guy?' They said, he's part-fish, part-bird, maybe a bit of lizard, and you don't have to go through five hours of makeup to play him. That was good enough for me.
I thought it'd be interesting to play an off-centre character who doesn't have to be pretty.
Pretty much anything William Shatner is in is great. He's great at playing that 'I'm the only one sane in the world' character.
I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes.
For me, I really liked the idea of playing a non-superhero on a superhero show.
After 'Dum Laga Ke Haisha,' I didn't know which way my life will head because my debut was with a very unconventional role.
When my agent told me I had an audition for 'Friar Tuck,' I burst out laughing. It actually brought a bit of sunshine to my day. I was thinking: fat suit. I was thinking: shaving my head. It was so outlandish, such a crazy idea.
The 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people think of me.
In college, I guess you could say I was a running back that threw.
It's so fun to play a villain. I get to tap into a side of myself I thought I never had.
'Scandal' is certainly different from anything else I've been involved with as an actor.
In a way, 'Mamma Mia!' was such a left-field thing for me.
Someone once said that Sci Fi was the modern Western. What's my favorite? Well, anything that needs a misfit. I don't have a real favorite. My dream is to play something different.
On 'Idol,' Steven Tyler will be sitting at a table with two other judges, and part of his job will be keeping his yap zipped while they talk. This makes no sense at all, since Tyler has zero yap-zipping skills.
What I want to do now is to play a dark character. I want a role that taps into my dark side and it will be a refreshing change for me after all the comic roles.
There's nothing more exciting as an actor than getting to do something that you're not entirely sure that anyone would let you do, and getting to take a big jump in a completely different direction.
Caliban is one of the most difficult characters to play because there's not a lot of history there. It's sort of a half-animal, half-man, and there's not a lot of background.
Obviously, portraying a mermaid is a very different kind of work, especially when compared to any other character you'd probably get asked to play in a show.
There's something really freeing about playing a character that isn't even, like, remotely likeable whatsoever.
You're always looking to have a unique experience as an actor, and definitely, being punched by a puppet ranks as a singular experience in my career.
I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue. I always wonder: Who's her weird friend? I like the oddballs.
