I don't watch scary movies. Sometimes, even having to read the script and do an episode of 'Grimm', I get a little tense because I know someone's going to jump out of somewhere.

I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time.

I am never happier than when I am on set and getting to act. And I can't wait for what is yet to come.

My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn.

I think acting for sure takes a lot of dedication, especially when you're starting out, because it's so much rejection and it's so important to really study and know your craft.

I speak Spanish because I grew up overseas in Spain, Uruguay and Argentina.

I love Spain. It's my favorite country that I've been to and I've traveled quite a bit. I've been really fortunate as an adult to have been to a lot of interesting places like Egypt and China.

I think Latin American cultures are really rich and fascinating. I like the pomp and circumstance of some of their rituals and ceremonies.

What we do is inherently self-centered and sort of narcissistic. It's hard to really be thinking about myself all of the time when I have a dog who needs me to be caring for him twenty-four seven.

Portland is a really great city, especially because I'm a shopper and there's no sales tax! That really adds up so fast, because in California, a $1000 pair of shoes ends up costing another $100.

A stethoscope hears not the beating of a heart’s desire.

I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker.

Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it's different, but because it's the same.

The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.

To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.

Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?

I would love to have the power to be the just eternally perfect husband so my wife would always be happy; that would take me to heaven if I could figure that one out.

My personal style has developed from growing up in Oklahoma, middle America, where I was wearing jeans and cowboy boots and where people were not running around in miniskirts.

The most effectual encouragement to population is, the activity of industry, and the consequent multiplication of the national products.

I've been doing that song ["Live Wire"] on my own for years, so no, I'm not worried about [high notes] at all.