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To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.

I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.

I think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold and up and down, but no one will kick me out of the business.

I think the hardest thing about being an actor is between jobs when you don't know and wondering if you'll ever work again. It's kind of a crazy business.

It's a pretty good job being an actor, but it's work sometimes. And when I say work, I mean it's a job. You're going to a job.

But acting is very much a profession that is you're hot one moment and not the next - and that is totally cool. I think that's what I find most fascinating and most exciting about it - is that it can be gone in a puff of smoke.

I'd never thought about acting as a job. I was an engineer; I was in science and technology. I loved movies and television growing up, but I'd never thought about it as, 'Oh, that guy Denzel Washington is employed as an actor.'

As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.

I will never be a career actor, I don't think. I don't feel that I have the skill set to jump into it that way, although I wouldn't mind giving it a try.