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I direct with energy. I believe in energy. I think energy is an electric thing in actors. I try to inspire, encourage, and make choices with lots of energy. And truth. I'm big fan of truth and being funny. I like leading 50 people into battle every day.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.

My tendency as an actor is, when there's a certain energy, I feel a challenge to match it, to come up to that plate and play on the same level.

I don't know how other people perceive the lives of actors, but my life is fairly ordinary. I go to work, I come home, I put my kids to bed. If I'm home in time for dinner, I have dinner, and then it's bedtime.

I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.

It seems extraordinary to have waited so long into one's life to have found the part that actually uses your basic rhythm. And I think that's always sort of what actors connect up with - their own sort of world.

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.