I really just like acting. I'm not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist.

I actually love working with accents. I don't know, something about it unlocks something in me. It makes me concentrate on getting into character a little more, helps me find a focus.

I love whiskey and haggis. I can't get enough of either.

It’s been such an honor to be your Owen Hunt

If a man comes up to me, I'm almost sure he's going to mention Rome, if it's a woman, it'll be 'Grey's Anatomy.'

I'm always very excited by something that's a curveball or from left field.

I was asked to be in the last two 'Harry Potter' films and I couldn't do it because I was busy filming 'Grey's Anatomy.

Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is.

I am the god of being messy - I'm trying to get better. I was terrible in my 20s. My kids are much tidier than I am, I don't know where they get it from, maybe their mother.

One of my complaints with American TV characters is that they all have a particular schtick, a hook.

It's a roll of the dice in the movie business. I mean, every single movie is a roll of the dice. Any movie on paper could look like it's going to be fantastic. You know what I mean?

Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things.

How can intemperate minds be free when they're slaves to their own passions?

Where's the dam water fountain I'm thirsty?

When the snow is still blowing against the window-pane in January and February and the wild winds are howling without, what pleasure it is to plan for summer that is to be.

I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

Women think with their whole bodies

Adolescents are like cockroaches: They come out the minute you leave town, crawl the walls, feed indiscriminately, reproduce alarmingly unless drugged, and will certainly outlast you.

Senator Chris Dodd unveiled his plan to reduce corruption in the Senate. He's retiring.

That's when you know you're a true married couple: when you have to apologize for what you did in her dream.

I wouldn't want to do a whole movie with effects.