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" 'Forensic Files' is amazing! I love it! There were marathons happening all the time in college. That show, because it's always on at night, was always better than any scary movie I could put on, because it was 'real.' "
Love
College
Amazing
" I am not interested in entertaining people. I think being an actor provides an opportunity to give people an experience they can connect to, reflect on, learn from, laugh at. "
I Am
Experience
Opportunity
" I collect pictures of adorable puppies on my phone. I have little room for anything else. "
Anything
Room
Pictures
" I grew up in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, in the early '90s, and hospitals and doctor's offices offered to x-ray candy. I was 7 or 8. The day after Halloween, my brother and I were sorting all of our candy, and my mom asked if she could have a piece of my gum. She put the gum in her mouth, bit down, and there was a shard of metal in it! "
Halloween
Mom
Brother
" I just love dialects; they're really fun. "
Love
Dialects
Really
" I like very confused people. The more confused, the more fun for me. "
Fun
People
More
" I'm a pianist - I studied jazz piano in college. "
Pianist
Studied
Piano
" In theater, you're allowed to take your time and sit in a role for a month before you have to share it with anybody. In film and TV, you have to just kind of show up and be ready to do that, which, to me, is very strange and crazy. "
Crazy
Kind
You
" I take things a little too seriously sometimes. "
Things
Little
Seriously
" I wasn't planning on doing musicals, but that's how I started. "
Planning
Doing
How
" I went through a lot of occupations. I was questioning my contribution to the world. "
Contribution
World
Through
" 'Olive Kitteridge' is the only thing that I've done on camera where we had a day of rehearsal before we shot, and I'm so glad that that happened, because I was so nervous. "
Only
Before
Camera
" One of the coolest ways to start building a character is the way he moves his mouth, what part of the mouth he puts his words into, how he expresses himself, and there's a certain flavor you get with a dialect. "
Building
Start
Character
" When I was auditioning for 'Gotham,' I got a handful of comics from different decades, so I had a perspective - it's been around for 75 years, which is a long time. "
Perspective
Time
Got
" You see a comic, and you're like, 'Oh wow: the Riddler has been drawn this way, and he's been drawn that way.' There are tons of looks, and his personality changes based on who's writing them. "
See
Personality
Changes
" You work on a play or movie, you have the whole script, so you're constructing a performance based on the bible that you have. In TV, you don't, so to actually invest in that and let that be the exciting part is terrifying and certainly leaves room for mistakes, looking back. "
Work
Bible
Mistakes
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