After 6 years it's easy to see how an actor would involuntarily channel his character, but George Eads revealed the similarities between him and Nick Stokes are few.

"I think that anything I've ever done, I've tried to bring as much of myself as I can to the role," he told the website Studio 23. "Some similarities – there's the dedication to the profession, I feel like I have a lot of dedication to the acting profession. The differences – Nick has a lot more brains (laughs). He's more tenacious. Smarter than I am, definitely."

Eads also recalled for the website how he came to work for CSI. "Les Moonves was familiar with my work, having have done two shows for the network at the time (Savannah and Grapevine). So I just sort of read for the pilot. [CSI director] Danny Cannon was auditioning me, and then after, I got the phone call in my car that I got the job."

Still, Eads said he'd learn not to get very optimistic about CSI's possible success. "With two canceled shows behind me, you learn not to be too excited, you know what I mean? Because you don't want to be disappointed. So I never made a really big deal out of it at all. And I still don't. I think that's the common denominator between all of us. We're not really excitable or freak out about success. If you expect anything, it's the fruits of hard labor, you know?"

Lucky for Eads everything worked out, and he gained both a stable job and a great group of friends. "I've never worked with a better cast, a more professional cast, I've never worked with better actors," he said. "They're humble, hardworking, cool people. That makes our show, over the course of time, still interesting – the personalities each of these people have. I just can't say enough about all of them."

Head over to the website Studio 23 to read the rest of the article, in which Eads talks about his life before and after his big break.

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