A room full of hundreds, let alone thousands, of people is not my most fun thing in the world.

If you're going to play a prostitute, you can't be too squeamish about that sort of thing. It's just part of the job, since the role requires it.

I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak.

I'm pretty excited about the state of TV these days. There's great opportunity for really complicated relationships, in a way that I don't really see as much in movies anymore.

I just want to play strong characters, whatever that is in.

I'm not interested in a pretty world. It's boring to me.

If you're lucky enough to get to play a character for a long time, it's life-changing.

As actors, we're a little faster than other people, with breaking down the walls.

Don't nourish your fears more than you nourish your hopes.

I just want to feel like home. I just want Rosabelle. My other half. Where she was day, I was night. While I was earth, she was sky." -Dreams, Smiles, and Bloody Tears

Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don't have to worry about life anymore.

The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.

I've lived in California for half of my life. It's weird, everyone thinks of me as this guy who's from the South ... I'm really a Californian.

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

There is a remedy for every thing, could men find it.

I don't want to call it audacity, it's too good a term, to appoint Jefferson Beauregard Sessions as attorney general should damn well be respectful of John Lewis.

As I've always said: The future lies ahead.

Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible.