Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is.

I actually love working with accents. I don't know, something about it unlocks something in me. It makes me concentrate on getting into character a little more, helps me find a focus.

I love whiskey and haggis. I can't get enough of either.

It’s been such an honor to be your Owen Hunt

If a man comes up to me, I'm almost sure he's going to mention Rome, if it's a woman, it'll be 'Grey's Anatomy.'

I'm always very excited by something that's a curveball or from left field.

I was asked to be in the last two 'Harry Potter' films and I couldn't do it because I was busy filming 'Grey's Anatomy.

I am the god of being messy - I'm trying to get better. I was terrible in my 20s. My kids are much tidier than I am, I don't know where they get it from, maybe their mother.

One of my complaints with American TV characters is that they all have a particular schtick, a hook.

I really just like acting. I'm not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist.

It's a roll of the dice in the movie business. I mean, every single movie is a roll of the dice. Any movie on paper could look like it's going to be fantastic. You know what I mean?

At both school and at home, I lost myself in books.

There is nothing to lose in this life.

The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

Her English was sweet, an effort for her, anachronistic and unpractised.

We are all motivated far more than we care to admit by characteristics inherited from our ancestors which individual experiences of childhood can modify, repress, or enhance, but cannot erase.

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

There's nothing nice about Steve Jobs and there's nothing evil about Bill Gates

Social media is not rocket science. This, however, does not make it easy either.

I think I went through puberty. I'm, like, 20 now and I was, like, 17 then, ... You know, I've experienced different things and am having a lot more fun with it.

Every part I get, I just think I'm so lucky. They're so hard to get, you know.