When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'

Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.

You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I figured I'd try it.

I was an infantry Marine, and there are only so many things you can do when you get out of the military that you can apply your job to. Either a janitor or a cop. I tried to do both of those things because what else are you going to do?

When I happened to get into school, I felt like I could approach it as aggressively as things in the military.

When you get out of the Marine Corps, you feel like you can do anything.