I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.

The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.

Troian is one of the most incredibly gifted actors I have ever seen.

I feel like I went from being a boy to being a man, in some respects, through the help of Dustin Hoffman.

I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.

Mike and Harvey finally consummate things, a great cliffhanger

I'm really blessed with the people in my life who keep me on track and keep pushing me forward.

What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.

Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it.

I like the chance to work on material. Sometimes it helps to not be going into a room cold and to know people.

Nothing could be given birth to without solitude.

And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside.

Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things.

If I die," he whispered in the dark, "dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait.

Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole.

I'm on the air five hours, and I blurt out anything in my head. Dangerous? Maybe.

Actors are merely the medium through which a story happens.

I saw 'True Blood' once, and I like the jazzy feel of it and stuff.

Every young writer, I imagine, has their first intellectual magazine, whose essays and articles are devoured all the more greedily for being slightly over one's head. Mine was First Things.

The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.