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.

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.

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

No one ever judges their own self.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I just grew up loving acting and loving entertainment.

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'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.

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.