Certainly I think being an absentee farther helps in adding a layer of conflict.

There's no man, alive or dead, who's going to fault you for living.

I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning.

More and more of our finest actors are finding room for themselves in the world of television - but I truly believe it's because some of the best stories are being told there.

I don't know that I feel comfortable playing a villain; as a matter of fact I probably don't feel comfortable, which is why I like it so much. It's just an opportunity to try something different.

My kind of success has come a little bit later in life. I'm not 20 any more and these people I've been working with have been successful and good at what they do for a long time.

Working exterior nights in Vancouver, when it's raining and snowing, is a little daunting, when you haven't slept.

As a matter of fact - it'll probably ruin my movie career - but I think better storytellers are in television.

I'm not a fan of horror. I don't think a proper horror movie has been done since The Shining.

If you look at my résumé, I've more often than not played a very solid, decent human being.

I can't say enough about Ireland. I can't. I'd move there.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to.

He just wanted to get through his uninteresting day, so he could cross over into the night, and find his way to the red headed light that brightened the black sky.

Someone said that if you're lonely at the top, it's because you didn't take anyone with you.

Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.

In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.

I spend so much time like living in the past or the future. I mean, I think most people do, really. And the moments when you're really present in your life can be pretty rare, really.

Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.

Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.