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When I first got out to Hollywood, they were pushing me for sitcoms, and I didn't really have an interest in them. I wanted to do films and slowly worked that way. And then it became, I guess, this curse of the leading man.

I don't want to sound too bleeding heart, because I know how lucky I've been, but I never knew how hard it was to be the lead in a television show.

As the lead actor, you naturally get involved with a show.

People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.

For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.

I constantly have anxiety about being the lead of the show. I don't talk about it because it scares me. But I've always wanted to be part of something where I could work on a character in such a big manner, and you get offered that with all the trappings of being the lead of the show.

I didn't even want to start acting when I started. At least, I never thought about it.

I didn't really have any aspirations to do TV when I first decided to be an actor.

I still haven't played a leading role in cinema or in TV, and that's something that I long for.

When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.