One of my complaints with American TV characters is that they all have a particular schtick, a hook.

I actually love working with accents. I don't know, something about it unlocks something in me. It makes me concentrate on getting into character a little more, helps me find a focus.

I love whiskey and haggis. I can't get enough of either.

It’s been such an honor to be your Owen Hunt

If a man comes up to me, I'm almost sure he's going to mention Rome, if it's a woman, it'll be 'Grey's Anatomy.'

I'm always very excited by something that's a curveball or from left field.

I was asked to be in the last two 'Harry Potter' films and I couldn't do it because I was busy filming 'Grey's Anatomy.

Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is.

I am the god of being messy - I'm trying to get better. I was terrible in my 20s. My kids are much tidier than I am, I don't know where they get it from, maybe their mother.

I really just like acting. I'm not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist.

It's a roll of the dice in the movie business. I mean, every single movie is a roll of the dice. Any movie on paper could look like it's going to be fantastic. You know what I mean?

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.

I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.

It takes 300 years, it seems, for the great bands to get their due.

I do like Britney Spears. I think she's cute. I think she's fun. And I like her records. You know, I'm not a pop snob whatsoever. I think she makes great pop records.

If work is just going in every day and getting a check, it's an ugly life. When you can make work a meaningful purpose, you've hit the jackpot for people.

Even guilty people deserve to be treated as those made in the image of God.

Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities of this great hybrid art have yet been explored.

You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.

Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.