I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.

I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.

It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.

I can't claim I'm truly a man's man, I'm just as much of a dork and a crybaby sometimes as anybody else.

Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.

The people who believe that their soul is being crushed by playing a particular role need to take a vacation or check into the looney bin for awhile.

The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.

I love the process of acting, simply because I like to play make believe. But for me, it is purely make believe and it is a process of playing.

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

Patience is born when we create a pause between our experience of a feeling and our response to that feeling.

I have a black pair of suede Jimmy Choos. I've only worn them once to a Sony event. The heels have these arrow plates in a pattern. There's gold, black and white and they're amazing!

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

For this alone on Death I wreak The wrath that garners in my heart: He put our lives so far apart We cannot hear each other speak.

This is what consciousness does: it sets the goals, and the rest of the system learns how to meet them.

To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage.

It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.

Pastors started killing their church members and church members killed pastors. Husbands killed wives. It's a situation no one can describe.

I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.

Sometimes you think certain details are things that only you would notice, so it's a great thing to feel like you're not by yourself and people understand where you're coming from.