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With its missed lines and falling tombstones, 'Dark Shadows' was sometimes inadvertently funny, but what made the show work was the fact that the actors and the writers took it all very seriously.

My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.

I'm down to act a little bit - go on a couple auditions or make one of those three-second cameos with one line.

This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.

My act is always a work in progress. I pray I have a bad day before a show.

It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.

It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it.

The first feature film I did, when I did 'Night Shift,' I improvised quite a bit because I would improvise at the audition, so sometimes I would return to the original lines, and then when I was on set, I would improvise even more.

Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.