With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.

Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.

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.

You have to be forward-moving and able to balance a lot of things at the same time. I attribute a lot of that to the Marine Corps and Juilliard both.

I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.

Obviously, 'Lincoln' is not about the telegraph operator. There's a whole other movie before and after the two isolated scenes that I'm in.