I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.

I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.

I've never played someone where I felt it was beneficial to build from the outside in.

It's a clique that I've never been a part of. It's not like I identify them in a negative way.

I never felt my career was going backwards.

I've never felt influenced by Ernest Hemingway though I suppose there is something inevitable there.