When I was a little kid, I told stories.

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.

I think, in my life, there've been three times I've broken down into tears on a set because I was happy.

I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.

I think I started realizing I was losing my hair when I was in Illinois. And it was traumatic. It was not something I had figured on in my life.

On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.

You can't beat life when you consider the alternatives.

Comfort is the enemy of the artist.

Using the stratagem of defining character by what changes and what remains the same, the one constant always seems to be regret. We are defined by the objects of our regret.

It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

We have to know the truth about the past to discover out future.

She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

There is no ownership. There is only stewardship.

It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series.

A junkie will steal your purse, and then help you look for it.

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

I've always defined myself as a writer, I've never decided what it was I was gonna write. [...] I always fancied myself one, but I'm not. I'm so far from a writer.

A lot of people didn't get to see Butler's skills throughout the course of the season.