Quotes from James Wolk

As an actor, it's exciting to play a role that's so far from what you are and to have people respond to it like a real human being!

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.

It's easy to think you can get discovered on the street, but I developed my chops on the stage - four years of theater in high school, and then another four in college.

The nature of television - it's quicker than both a play and a movie.

My character on 'The Crazy Ones' is entirely different than Bob Benson. If these guys ran into each other at a bar, I don't think they'd have much to talk about. They're really different guys.

I just grew up loving acting and loving entertainment.

In my everyday life, I'm a jeans and button-up shirt kind of guy.

When you feel moved by the story, you want to tell that story.

I just enjoyed bar mitzvahs as a kid, and there was this company in the Detroit area where I grew up, and I think they recruited me as a party dancer - you know, like, you dance around and pass out glow sticks. I quickly rose in the ranks and, within a year, became an emcee, which was kind of unheard of.