I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.
'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
With 'Girls'... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it's always the imperfection I'm always more attracted to.
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?
If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.
I never played sports or got into the whole guy camaraderie of, like, 'I love you, man! Seniors forever!' So suddenly being in the military with these guys who were under these very heightened circumstances, isolated from their families, living this very kind of Greek lifestyle, it changed my life in a really big way.
People always are desperate to have others acknowledge that they are different.
Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.
For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.
Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
September 11 happened, and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.
By the time I got into Juilliard, I was working at a Target distribution warehouse. It didn't make anything, it just shipped things, and my job was just to stand there and look at the security codes on the back of trucks and see if they would lock, and check them in.
