I try to make all of my roles likeable in some way.

There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.

It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

Welcome to a life of insecurity and paralyzing self-doubt.

My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.

I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.

I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.

Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows.

And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.

I feel like Hollywood is a big high school again. Seriously, Ashton Kutcher is the prom king.

Contrary to what we've been told, life is simple. We complicate matters with our choices.

Contentment is not a power that may be exercised naturally, but a science to be acquired gradually.

To hold the power of affection and maintain the roots of love, you must stay trusted.

I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.

Enthusiasm is something you can't fake, and it has a tremendous effect on everyone around you.

Anyone who presumes to teach art has no understanding of it.

The internet is awesome and responsible for my success.

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success.

The most fun part about working out is being done - getting through the workout, let's be honest. But that feeling afterward? Yeah, that's worth it.

Money, horse racing and women: three things the boys just can't figure out.