I'm not a fan of horror. I don't think a proper horror movie has been done since The Shining.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don't run away from this dying. Whoever's not killed for love is dead meat.

If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might yet accomplish

I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

We live in a moment when the dream of equal opportunity is within reach.

If you're doing your job properly, you take the risk of feeling slightly foolish and delve in and bring out the emotions.

Laughing in full abandonment is very good for your health.

Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children.

To feel beauty, to feel truth, that is self-remembering. Self-remembering is the awareness of the presence of God.

When one is not slipshod in small matters, not hypocritical in secret, and not reckless in disappointment, only then is one a true hero.