I was always such a skinny kid, so I kind of grew up with an "I hate skinny" mentality.

A family is created throughout the process, and it's always difficult when you lose someone.

My main goal, when I started acting, was to show as much versatility as possible because I like playing diverse roles.

We speak loud. And we speak with our hands, but we're not aggressive like warwise. A Portuguese is not going to punch you for no reason.

I'm starting my own family and there is no other feeling like it.

No actor in the world started off at the top.

Having a gun in your hand is very empowering.

The producers like to keep people guessing and keep them on the edge of their seats.

Im not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.

I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.

I'm not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

Be different. Trust yourself. Be bold.

There are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.

Be happy for what you have not for what you should have.

If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

Males shouldnt be jealous. Thats a female trait.

We had a sense of importance that would have led us to risk our lives for our rhetoric.

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.