Obviously, David [Shore] probably has pressure because House was such an amazing show. But I try not to go into these jobs, thinking that I have to live up to people's expectations.

As an actor, I tend to enjoy going to the dark side.

You don't really think The Terminator exists, but you want him to exist.

I think I was raised by a really good mother.

for me the most fun of my career is to bring a little bit of irreverence to characters. And, you know, I don't think that the producers were expecting me to be as irreverent as I am.

I have yet to do a job where I would really get to rock the great clothes. I'd love to do a job where I could wear Thom Browne.

People are lazy, and they want their fast food via the television.

Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its approval.

You tell your brother he's gonna pay for that car in silver.

They shot one of ours.” The lines deepened around his grey eyes. “I’d waste the whole army for spilling a drop of my crew’s blood.

This tree was a vast cylinder of wood. It filled the sky. The limbs reached out above me, a great canopy sheltering the rest of the trees, as if they were its children.

I don't pretend to anything more than harmony.

I could add her to the long list of people I didn't understand.

I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window.

Would you like to watch TV or get between the sheets and contemplate this violent freeway, would you like something to eat would you like to learn to fly would ya, would you like to see me try

Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark

I would always reserve a special place in my heart for Pittsburgh.