I'm only the messenger.

My two kids take a lot of my focus, which I'm grateful for.

You mortgage yourself sometimes. You know what you want to do, then you balance it against paying the rent.

The world isn't what you think it is.

It's easy to actually get the ink on the page, but somehow I've gotta find a way to play this. And I have to find a way to emotionally survive playing this.

A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don't know what art is.

An actor always wants to sink his teeth into something.

I've never bought a boxed set DVD or anything like that.

As an actor, often you're stuck with these scenes in which a great period of time is in between them - for example, if you do a biopic, it might be a year, it might be a decade, you never know.

In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and its up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character.

His voice is like a thunderstorm, and his hands know every secret hidden deep beneath the cool, dark earth.

It made me think how different everything might have been if we had both been born in Terravin.

Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for.

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes

I think men and women's burdens and destinies are intertwined.

My trick is the trick that everyone knows: Work really hard and prepare.

Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

The audience usually has to be with you, I'm afraid. I always regarded myself as not even preaching to the converted, I was titillating the converted.

The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature.