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To be honest, I don't think I'm an actor. I'm a creator - or try to be.

See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.

I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.

As an actor, you're tied to the writing. You live and die by what's written for you. And you can elevate that to a certain extent, but really, that's your blueprint.

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.

You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself.

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile.

As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.