I just grew up loving acting and loving entertainment.

You can find old Jewish newspapers from Detroit that have my promotional ad in them. It was a totally insane time in my life. Paul Rudd was also a bar mitzvah emcee, you know? It was like being a local rock star in Detroit.

I'm not a network executive, but it seems to be a time when networks take more of a gamble with higher-concept shows. And so, it's fun to be on something that's original, that's finding viewership, that's finding a great audience, and really distinguishing itself. Summer's a great place to do that.

Anytime you get to join a group of people you admire and respect, you want to keep those doors open.

I have a dog. I'm a dog lover.

In a great play or a great film, there's a rehearsal period and they find this character. On TV, everything moves fast.

I'm also not an avid watcher of the show ['Walking Dead'] for no good reason. I think it's obviously a great show. I think it's a good comparison [to Zoo], because it is this apocalyptic world we're living in Season 2 of Zoo.

I think you always want to be open to things... it's just the matter of finding something I believe in, finding a character I believe in, and I think that's the way it should always be. I'm looking for things that excite me.

Birds always seem like they're swooping down on you.

There's a film I did called 'Front of the Class', about a teacher who had Tourette's. That was a beautiful blend of drama and comedy. There's some great moments of levity in the script.

Honestly, it's the luck of the draw. If you are comfortable with the actor that you're opposite of - it just breaks down a lot of those insecurities and you can just say, Okay, I trust this person, and I respect them and know they respect me, and then you can just go with it. When that doesn't exist, it's a lot harder to let go.

In Michigan, if you want to act, it's local theater, it's high school theater and it's going to camp and putting on plays in the summer, and I always loved doing that. There was something that just drew me to it.

Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.

No one ever judges their own self.

Getting a second thing isn't always easy in this busy, competitive television market.

When I was young, my parents made me listen to old music and watch Jimmy Durante. I fell in love with the whole mystique of acting and entertainment.