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[ Angel Series] Really Taught Me That Acting Is Not Just About Being Emotionally Challenged. It's About Being Physically Challenged. And I Enjoyed Both Aspects Of That.

As An Actor, It Made Me Realize A Really Important Lesson. I Didn't Have To Put Any Spin On The Ball As Rita [in Dexter]. All I Had To Do Was Speak. And There Was Such Simplicity In That As An Actor. With Debra, I Was Trying To Put A Square Peg Into A Round Hole, And It Just Didn't Work, But In My Mind, Because I Had To Work So Hard On It, I Was, Like, "oh, This Is Acting!" But That's Not Acting.

When I First Auditioned For Dexter... Well, I Was Sent The Script, And I Read It And Loved It, And I Knew Right Away That It Was Going To Be A Hit Because It's The Type Of Programming That I Like To Watch. It's That Very Morally Ambiguous Thing Where You Find Yourself Rooting For Someone Who's Really An Awful Person, But... Is He Doing Good? You're Constantly Calling Into Question Your Own Moral Code. I Love That As An Audience Member.

The Hardest Thing To Do As An Actor Is To Be Simplistic, And To Just Be.

I'd Been Doing Comedy Up That Point And Hadn't Really Done A Lot Of Drama, And Then All Of A Sudden He Casts Me As A 400-year-old Vampire From Hell. It Was, Like, "what?!"