I've been acting for many years, and the more you do, the more confidence you get about "this is my career and this is what I'm going to be doing."

Being a son of the pastor, I was never allowed to play Joseph or any of the big parts for political reasons.

Trying to find a human side to the character is a way to give them a chance to have people like them.

As an actor, I enjoy variety. That's a big thing for me.

The weird thing about drama school is that you train for three years for one thing and then more often than not, it's something that you haven't trained for that you end up doing.

We're characters not of this world, so our knowledge about stuff, that other character's don't have, is quite fun.

Being on the floor of a TV show is sometimes a quite frustrating experience.

The fact that you can say stuff to people that other people are only thinking is always fun. It's a great tool for comedic moments, as well.

When you're a drama student, I think the most you hope for is to make a living out of acting.

I wanted to work on a cable show and with a writer/director because that's a much more fulfilling and freeing experience, as an actor.

I've worked a lot in comedy. As much as I love playing dramatic roles, it's always nice to be able to have some humor around when working.

It was starting to seem to her that being "forward-thinking" too often involved avoiding any kind of thought at all - especially about things that might benefit from a great deal of thinking.

Forgiveness is really about absolution: to set free. But if you look carefully at the dynamic, the one you’re setting free is yourself.

And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men.

Everything I didn’t know I was looking for…it’s there whenever I’m with you. I don’t know what it is that you think I deserve, but I don’t want anything other than what’s right here, right now.

She’d decided that about eighty percent of what you believe about yourself when you’re twenty turns out to be wrong. The problem is you don’t know what your small true part is until much later.

My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that.

As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

No one predicts the future. No one tries to.

Christianity is a pestilent superstition.