If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.

In the summer of 2009, I was at the Shakespeare lab at the public theater in New York.

I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college.

One of the great things about having been on Lost is people coming up and feeling so enthusiastic about the show and saying, "Oh it provided us so much entertainment," or "It inspired conversations."

I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories.

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

I don't think that necessarily I was encouraged by the nuns and the priest to consider alternate possibilities to the universe.

I went to Notre Dame. I don't know if that has any relevance, but maybe we all had a little too much philosophy and theology.

Lacey-girl, books take you anywhere. Any place you want to go. You remember that always.

An inventor is he whose thoughts and imagination become things of reality by creative action.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible and Homer through Joyce and Proust.

The trick to following someone without getting caught is to follow somebody who doesn't think they're being followed.

Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

When cleverness emerges There is great hypocrisy.

I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful.