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.

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.

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

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.

I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.

I have personally seen what a devastating medical condition can cost.

Jesus always pointed people towards a better version of themselves - particularly when they'd failed.

I think people have a little wall they throw up real quick if they see swords and sorcery.

If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.

The Holocaust is not only a tragedy of the Jewish people, it is a failure of humanity as a whole.

It's nice sometimes to open up the heart a little and let some hurt come in. It proves you're still alive.

If God said, 'Rumi pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my arms,' there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought, not one feeling, nor any act, I would not bow to.

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.