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I love dogs.
I've never been good at selling myself.
I've always felt like I had a guardian angel.
Every show needs a jerk. I guess I'm that guy.
I wasn't really a big comic book guy, growing up.
Well, every superhero has to have a super look, right?
I spend more time in suits than anyone in the corporate world.
Football is one of the main things I can look back on with pride.
I haven't ever been stereotyped or pigeonholed or put into a box.
I never grew up with heroes in show business. My hero was my father.
Television doesn't get any better than the second episode of 'Castle.'
We all have great faith in the writing team that puts together 'Heroes.'
Watching 'Profit' is like peering into a fishbowl and watching a piranha at work.
Most actors who direct do it because they've been directed by so many bad directors.
I thought I was signed up to be on 'Heroes.' It turns out I signed up to be on 'Survivor.'
I don't think 'Profit' is devoid of morality. He's just on a different plane than the rest of us.
Part of the reason a hit show is a hit show is because of the people - good, solid, decent people.
I don't consider myself to be a celebrity. If anything I'm a minor celebrity or a TV star or whatever.
It's not stupid TV, it's not a reality program. It actually is complex. There's many layers to 'Heroes.'
I had so many people care so much and work so diligently to make sure I didn't end up in the wrong place.
Austin is home in a lot of ways. Both my kids were born here, and my wife's side of the family lives here.
Acting just seems to be a way of getting into a different place. It seems like a really creative place to be.
The best TV is always about family, whether it's 'All in the Family,' or 'The Sopranos' or 'The Flintstones.'
I have a channel on YouTube called Buckshotwon. It started off as a kind of joke, just behind-the-scenes goofs.
You just go out there and do the best you can. If it hits, it hits. And if it doesn't, you go on to the next thing.
A lot of the dysfunction that exists underneath the surface of a lot of big business corporations is really profound.
I did a show called 'Profit' a while back, and I based some of the work on some people that were in office at the time.
I wasn't really a big comic book guy, growing up. I watched cartoons, but the choices were a whole heck of a lot slimmer.
You do a couple of superhero things and then, all of a sudden, they want to get you because there may be some name value.
I got to meet Princess Diana at Leicester Square, where we had a big premiere. It was one of the great experiences in my life.
People ultimately get what they deserve on TV. What people end up watching is what the advertising end up glomming onto and promoting.
Do I believe in vampires? I've got an agent. Even more, I've got a manager. So yes, I believe full well in vampires and blood-letting.
I started to run marathons and got into road biking in Los Angeles. It was a lot of fun and I managed to get into the shape of my life.
I remember being scared to death of horror movies as a kid. Sometimes, I missed the whole movie because I was so scared and couldn't look.
I think the actor has two responsibilities. One is to be visually compelling, and the other to recite the lines as written by the writers.
Being asked to carry a major show with the restrictions that are thrown on you is very limiting. I'd rather hit it hard, do it right, and walk away.
I know that the vitriol and hyperbole that exists online, and the anonymity, can be deadly because it's cloaked in negativity and it's brutal sometimes.
'Profit' in my mind is as good as television gets, and if that didn't make it, all bets are off on really predicting what's going to work and what's not.
I just kind of stumbled into this Marvel thing with 'Spider-Man.' It's been great. I love it, it keeps me in town, it keeps me busy, and it's a lot of fun.
My favorite was the Silver Surfer growing up. I just thought that his slug line, 'He who travels fastest, always travels alone,' always appealed to me as a kid.
I don't consider myself much of an actor. I have a face and a voice that allows me to do certain things, but there are people who are way better at it than I am.
It's always very fun to play someone who's somewhat enigmatic, but at the same time there are underpinnings of real concern for mankind. That was what 'Profit' had a lot of.
You always have good shows and bad shows. People want a certain amount of each. It's just widening the market a little bit. The involvement of people at home is just broadening things.
'Profit' was an intriguing fellow that couldn't be approached as a villain or a hero. The challenge in hanging a show on a character like Jim Profit was that we knew that we were in for a rough reception.
It's a different thing to just be a voice. It's liberating, on one hand, because you get to show up in sweatpants and with Doritos on your fingers, but on the other hand, it's limiting because it's just your voice.
I really enjoy those characters like 'Profit.' With those elements that are shady and dark, you're not responsible for being a likable character. Like some of Jack Nicholson's characters, you remember them for so long.
We don't work for the government. We don't carry guns. We don't chase aliens. We are a man and a woman. The similarities end there... If 'X-Files' and 'Touched by an Angel' crashed on 'Highway to Heaven,' you'd have 'Mysterious Ways.'
If you ever go behind the glass and look at the focus groups that are deciding what you're gonna watch, it's scary. This cross-section of people they just happen to bring in to decide the fate of mankind on television is really scary.
There's so much showmanship and gamesmanship involved in politics, it's really not a stretch to imagine an actor getting involved in being a figurehead for a political party. But for myself personally, I just don't think I could do that.
The different arenas that I've been able to do Iron Man in are fun, but some more than others. The anime that we did early on was tough. That was the hardest one. It was a reinterpretation of a reinterpretation. I don't think I'd do that again.