Having a family has made a huge difference in the roles I take, so doing a show in L.A. is a huge factor.
Start-up teams are always in flux, so, like all start-ups, we're always talking to candidates for various key roles.
That's the great thing about being an actor, you know, you can just jump to different jobs.
When I was at Teradata, I got called a growth guy. And then when I became C.E.O. of the whole company, I got called a cost-cutter. Then, I came to H.P. and became an operations guy.
It's almost like when you're young, your friends take on the romance role, and then guys take on the role of your friends later.
Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too small ever to contain the experience.
I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.
That's one of the things we love about being an actor. We get to change things up all the time to remain fresh.
I've changed my life in a lot of ways. I'm a mom, a wife, and a Christian. Some of the things I expressed in my early 20s aren't what I care to express right now.
I've pitched in a lot of different roles in my career. I've been the middle-inning guy. I've been a lefty matchup guy. I've closed. I've kind of done a little bit of everything.
I do think that what's wonderful in life is that we gain perspective as we take on different roles that are mind and heart opening.
I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.
I have been typecast in my career, although the type changes with the decades.
It is a little bit strange from when you share a dressing room with someone, you play with them and then all of a sudden they are your manager but you used to have conversations with them that stay in dressing rooms and now you can't really have those conversations!
The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind.
