I try to master every facet of a character in order to build a safety net for myself, so I can go on to take more risks to create someone really distinct.

I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.

Coffee is to wake up, coffee is to work with, coffee is to live with, coffee is life

Someone else's success is not your failure.

Home is where you feel unjudged, and where what I do isn't necessarily stupid or wrong.

What this is about is hopefully an opportunity for me to help pave the way for my future in terms of getting financially choosier. You have to plan the windfall as if it'll be your only one.

Well, I'm a big believer in 'never say never.

I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.

My Emmy competition is awfully good. My stomach is already in knots. The problem is that I don't drink, so I can't calm myself that way. I wish I could be better at pretending I don't care.

I want to drive! I love to drive! I drive at home in Barbados.

Knowledge is the food of the soul.

Where you are running to is not the answer, who is with you is the power.

You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

An Ego Mind is a destructive mind and a rational mind is a peaceful mind.

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.

I had been a fashion photographer for over ten years, but I'd always been dissatisfied with what I was doing. It was all about selling people, and I got disheartened by the whole industry.

The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate.

I am Constantly afraid, but it's a big driving force in my life. I'm more likely to try and tackle a fear than let it control me.

A person who has no friends, lives only half way.