My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character.

Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.

I think what makes us human is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it.

I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.

I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.

If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience.

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.

I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor.

I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff.

Fear of Death Stops You to Live

My mom is definitely my rock.

Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.

Yes, I am an Irish lass through and through.

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

Gah, some chicks should be shot. Put out of everyone else's reproduction pool.

It is in the best interests of civilization and our economy and our nation to understand what objective truths are as revealed by the methods and tools of science.

There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.

I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.

I'm drowning in whiskey river.