It's easy to actually get the ink on the page, but somehow I've gotta find a way to play this. And I have to find a way to emotionally survive playing this.

My two kids take a lot of my focus, which I'm grateful for.

You mortgage yourself sometimes. You know what you want to do, then you balance it against paying the rent.

The world isn't what you think it is.

A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don't know what art is.

An actor always wants to sink his teeth into something.

I've never bought a boxed set DVD or anything like that.

As an actor, often you're stuck with these scenes in which a great period of time is in between them - for example, if you do a biopic, it might be a year, it might be a decade, you never know.

I'm only the messenger.

In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and its up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character.

Above all, we pray that they will make the journey from selfishness to true love. Whether together or single, this is a journey we all have to make. In a sense it is the real journey of life.

I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.

Las Vegas is incredible. Either you love it or you're a classy person with morals. I fall into the former category. It's definitely bled into my writing.

Cold steel was not meant to be an after-dinner dessert!

The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.

San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

In general I love to eat anything. I enjoy anything that is well prepared, a good spaghetti, lasagna, taco, steak, sushi, refried beans.

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.