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Yeah, September 11 happened and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.

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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.

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Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.

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Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.

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I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.

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For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

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Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.

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In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.

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Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.

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Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.

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I always found something strangely paternal about the director-actor relationship. Actors want so much approval.

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Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.

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I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.

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Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.

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I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that audience doesn't typically go to the theater.

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I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.

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

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I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.

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At the end of whatever we're doing, I always feel like I want to go back and start over again because now I have a better sense of what it is. I feel that with everything. Like, if you're doing like a long run of a play and you're doing it seven shows a week, at the end of it, I want to go back and start from the beginning.

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I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.

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