I worked at a pizza shop. My brother's best friend owned it. I did a little bit of everything there, whatever they needed.
I have worked in comedies and romance genre, so I wanted a change. I wanted to do some tough work.
I don't have a preferred medium of work, but like all actors, I do like to move from one to the other if possible.
Sometimes I work in my office, just reading material, meeting writers, working on scripts. Other times, I'm on location. There's a lot of variety.
I'm definitely in a place where I'm looking for different than what I've done in the past, just so I can go to work and do something I haven't done before.
I tend to watch things that aren't really the genre of my own work.
I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.
I'd like to start trying different fields of work. I don't want to be stuck in just comedy, and I'd be interested to try to break into the movie business because it's so much different than television.
That's what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other.
If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished - there will always be work you haven't done.
Seven years I worked in landscaping. It was a good job, I don't complain. I liked going out to different houses every day, traveling.
The flight back and forth to LA has just started to feel like a commute, I think because all the jobs are jobs that I love doing so much, and it's such a great challenge to be holding on to all these different parts and to have to be in different mediums.
This is the good thing about commercials, is one week I'm working with Derek Cianfrance and the next week I'm working with another really good friend.
I really enjoy a variety of different work, and what I've just done may sometimes determine what I choose to do next.
The key, I always thought, to my career would be diversity - a diversity of not only the type of work that you do but the mediums.
I am enjoying the abundance and variety of work on the web.
It's nice because working in England I'm know for working in television and theater when you get a chance to come out, it is quite fun to be out from behind the mask. You need to let people know who you are.
I love Hugh Laurie, but I don't want to be a guy who goes to work every day for nine months of the year in a corner of Burbank. I really don't. I like doing a bit here and a bit there and strange things, and I think that's held me back.
The nature of the task needs to be renewed so people just don't feel that all the hard work is in the same groove all the time, under the same circumstances and in the same environment.
Wherever I am in the world, I never get Sunday night blues. I suppose it's because I've never worked at any one thing long enough to start hating it.
I want to take up work in different genres.
That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another.
I certainly do all sorts of work. I'm very, very blessed to do drama and other types of television, and things like that, but I always go back to sci-fi, whenever possible, because that's really exciting for me.
It doesn't make sense for me to try to be, like, a dance dude who only releases two 12-inches a year and then plays every weekend. Making an album, you get to put out a body of work that shows a lot of different sides of you. And you get to work on it for an intense period of time and promote that album. And then you get to move on.
I do screen work, adult books, kids books and comic stuff, which gives me a pretty full plate. The problem is usually choosing which one I want to work on next.
