To get to play a bad person and do bad things in a safe environment like 'Arrow' was pretty amazing.

Every morning we have a choice -- forget our dreams or live them.

Before Fringe I was in Dirty Sexy Money playing Jeremy Darling who was this bratty New York socialite.

Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this transition from being a boy or a young man into actually being a man.

Whatever kind of story you're telling, whether it's a genre piece for a comic book or whatever it is, it has importance because it's all a metaphor for the existence of our being.

I think what's so great about 'Arrow' is that they really ground everything in reality.

I think everyone thinks their family is insane, and every family is insane. There is no real normal.

The more you spend time with a character, the more you see different nuances of that character.

I just think, as a species, what we [people] enjoy most is creation and creativity, and telling stories is an extension of expressing all the thoughts and ideas that we have inside of ourselves.

No matter how good you act to be tough, your emotions will flow without your control...

Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.

The one you love leans forward, smiles, deceives you, Opens a door through which you see dark dreams.

There's always something you missed or something you didn't notice or somehow you got wrong... I don't really have a beginning.

The Master and Margarita is my favorite. To me it’s the greatest exploration of the human imagination.

You have to learn certain skills to present magic.

The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.

There is no heaven on Earth. Not now anyway.

Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow.

Time meanwhile is flying, flying beyond recall.