Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.

Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.

I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.

It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.

The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

I find that everything I do is demanding, like Jack Bristow is a complicated man and I do a lot of explaining in the show, it takes a lot of energy and concentration.

The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.

In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't.

Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.

If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.

I've been amazed that it's so popular with people. But it's been fantastic. People are very excited when I walk into a place and they recognize me from the series.

To all those women -- strong enough to be heroes

If I can't trust my child with what is happening in our home how do I think he or she will ever experience trust?

We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong.

"And tired" always followed sick. Worst beating I ever got in my life, my mother said, "I am just sick..." And I said, "And tired." I don't remember anything after that.

The world isn't what I've believed it to be, and I am not what I believed me to be, and neither is anyone.

I was afraid you had deceased,' he said. 'Or gotten engrossed in a long book.

Knowledge is nothing without action. Nothing changes until you do something. What you do will directly determine what you learn.

My friends in Australia, they grew up with me acting, so they're used to it.

What we remember, and how we order and interpret what we believe to be true, are what shapes who we are.

It's not about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness .