Real acting is realistic no matter what the medium.

I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.

When I came out here, my manager thought that casting directors might think I'm a girl, and when I did Threat Matrix, they thought Jamie was a little light.

It's still about the women. It's not called Desperate Plumber. People are more interested in cat fights.

I have a long track record of really horrible relationships and a divorce behind me; so I'm not the guy to ask. I just got really fortunate with this one.

I love David Caruso. I know it's not cool, but I do. I watch CSI: Miami. I think he's interesting.

I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that we don't all have the sort of arrogance it feels like they're perceiving from our leaders.

I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative.

I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more open-minded than that.

Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it's fun to know people are watching, and to know that all of your hard work is not sort of wasted.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

The mind is a poetic meadow for reification, where dark and light things are created

We still live in the era in which information is rich and insight is poor.

Sometimes you just need to raise your voice. And sometimes a little anger is necessary, to be honest.

In soaps, people come back from the dead all the time, to the point where death is just a bus stop.

Sometimes I'll say, "When Sandy Bullock and I were doing Speed - the movie, not the drug." Just in case someone's listening.

Theme-park approach to nature. We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We gravitate toward animals and plants that are big, dramatic, beautiful and at eye-level.

Beware the beguiled, they do their own beguiling.

When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective and his process, which to me is a lot like the artist.