My mum was a music teacher. I've got three sisters, and we all played instruments when we were kids.

I've been acting for many years, and the more you do, the more confidence you get about "this is my career and this is what I'm going to be doing."

Being a son of the pastor, I was never allowed to play Joseph or any of the big parts for political reasons.

Trying to find a human side to the character is a way to give them a chance to have people like them.

As an actor, I enjoy variety. That's a big thing for me.

The weird thing about drama school is that you train for three years for one thing and then more often than not, it's something that you haven't trained for that you end up doing.

We're characters not of this world, so our knowledge about stuff, that other character's don't have, is quite fun.

Being on the floor of a TV show is sometimes a quite frustrating experience.

The fact that you can say stuff to people that other people are only thinking is always fun. It's a great tool for comedic moments, as well.

When you're a drama student, I think the most you hope for is to make a living out of acting.

I wanted to work on a cable show and with a writer/director because that's a much more fulfilling and freeing experience, as an actor.

Is the any grace like go and sin no more?

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

I know the constitution in Oregon was passed in 1859. Free expression of opinion.

Happiness and high come to you when you choose to live your life consistent with your highest values and your deepest convictions.

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave

I learn about the highs and lows of living with the same mother for your entire life, about how no one can make you angrier, but how you can't really love anyone more.

Our love is like a song but you won't sing along.

Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for in it lies a whole mixture of gratitude and longing, the twin ingredients of every prayer.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.