I think, as I've gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do.

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.

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

If you look at my résumé, I've more often than not played a very solid, decent human being.

Before you enbark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

Nature will teach us many lessons if we take the time to visit her classroom.

The saddest thing is that every love has an unhappy ending, and all the more unhappy in proportion to how divinely it began, with what wings it first took flight.

It is one of the benchmarks of a culture I always think – the page at which it operates. A good way to measure it is to order a taxi and see how irate local people get if it is late.

I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.

I think Obama has redefined the Democratic Party. It used to be the party of acid, amnesty, and abortion, and now it's surrender, socialism, and subprime mortgages.

You can't kill it with goodbye; It always finds a place to hide inside your heart for your whole life. Love is never-ending.

I was taught very early on that the state can be, and is, a liar and a murderer.

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

Whenever government proposes to get involved in the regulation of trade, just be very, very careful about who's behind this proposal, what their motives are.