With TV, you don't know, but you can build it as you go and bring some things to life. It's malleable, changeable and flexible.

Most of the time, actors respond to the thing thats so far from who they are. We all want to play the serial killer and the ex-con.

I'm a workaholic, so I read everything that's out there.

TV [series] is a six-year decision. It's not four or five weeks. If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so whatever.

If your heart, head and gut are telling you the same thing, then you owe it to yourself to chase it.

It makes it [work] a lot easier when you like what you do. It's easy when you're working and making money doing it. It's hard when you're not. That's when that gets challenged.

People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.

I basically applied to law school as a way of telling my parents that I wasn't going to medical school.

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.

There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.

A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.

I know that I'm Muslim. I have an Arabic name. And even though I represent Team USA and I have that Olympic hardware, it doesn't change how you look and how people perceive you.

I don't believe Iran is a suicide state.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.