As an actor, that's the best thing you can do, really take people along on a story and tell them something.
Doing that, then doing a lot of theater, which I love. Doing guest stars, did two independent films that are going around to all these festivals. Both of them are going to be at the Lake Tahoe Film Festival.
Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.
Ever since I got on Days I've been doing theater.
I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.
I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it's different.
I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.
I think it makes a lot of sense and of course I love Christie Clark. I think she's awesome; she's beautiful and fun to work with. I think she has some really unique qualities to her that would bring a lot to the show.
I'm just a geeky, goofy person.
Soap Actors are fun and interesting. They all have something special that you want to be around.
The number one thing I've been doing is being daddy.
Then I contacted Ken, then he called me back, then we had a great meeting. Then he called and asked if I would come back to the show. Which was awesome.
Then I did another play there with Stephen Tobolowsky, who's a really fine actor and director, called Blue Silence. I played a street tough guy.
Then I did Japanese Death Poem. I played seven or eight different characters. It's the most challenging thing I've ever done on stage.
This is my second day. It feels like I have been away from school for a very long time and it's my first week back.
With comedy you have to really be in touch with the energy of the crowd, you have to really be in touch with timing. I feel like I've had a lot of success in theater doing that, but it's a super-challenge.
Austin is a member of Theater 40, based in Beverly Hills.
Austin was discovered by a talent agency when he was 16 years old.
Austin worked for a model before breaking into television. He appeared on the covers of magazines such as GQ, Vogue Hommes, Esquire and Vogue.
Austin & his wife, Tara, welcomed their first son, A.J., on July 11, 2002. Their second son Roman Peck was born on February 15, 2005.
In August 2006, Austin’s manager confirmed that Austin and Carrie’s characters on Days Of Our Lives would be written out of the show.
Austin won a “Soap Opera Digest” Award for Hottest Romance with his co-star Christie Clark ("Carrie Brady") for Days Of Our Lives in 1997.
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