My girlfriend doesn't think I'm funny at all.

I like to do my research, get in the right mental state for the person I'll be portraying. A lot of time, it's just incorporating a lot of what that person would be into, into my daily routine.

Everyone should have cheat days or days off. You need to balance the unhealthy with the healthy.

Every actor needs someone to take a chance on them.

Luckily, I didn't get too beaten up before someone gave me a shot, but there were times when I was living on friends' couches and eating five-dollar subs from Subway almost every meal.

My friends and family definitely helped me with the biggest obstacle in my life, which was just staying in L.A. long enough to really give it a shot.

A lot of my inspiration comes from the movies and TV, watching other people doing things that I one day hope to have the opportunity to do.

Just being the first person to bring the character to life is really fun and exciting.

It's nice to be playing a character who's never had a live-action version before.

It's better to leave them wanting more than to be the show where people are like, "Oh, that's still on the air?"

I play hockey in a pickup league. I grew up playing, so it's nice to get on the ice whenever I can.

Everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.

Design isn't Art. It's not about creating beautiful or thought-provoking things for the sake of it. Design is a discipline creating communication with a purpose.

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.

Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

Essien Udom is a Nigerian. At present he's a professor at Ibadan University.

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.

It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.

They haven't made love for years but sleep holding hands

I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.