My mom worked at the VA for years, so any time I can do anything to help, it's a must.

I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away.

I started in radio, again accidentally. I wasn't looking for this kind of work at all.

We're all idiots when we're young. We don't think we are, but we are. So we should be.

I'm not strong-willed actually. I'm a complete pushover. I love to be told what to do.

When you give your all to something and you're hitting a wall, it just feels so wrong.

The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last.

It alarms me to think of all that I have read and how little of it has stayed with me.

People sometimes forget how important Broadway is as a place for young actors to grow.

Men want to put their signature at the bottom; women don't want to finish that letter.

We love things that are dangerous yet sexy. We love things that are powerful and wise.

Working at BBC, at the head of one of the top dramas, is a tradition for great actors.

You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.

When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.

It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.

I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.

We have to do what we can to help wherever and whenever it is possible for us to help.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

I think I work as hard as I do now, because of a lot of lessons I've learned early on.

An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.

I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.

Speed Racer is good to cut your teeth on, but if anyone has not seen Akira, go get it.

The best way of enjoying your money is to spend it on other people. I don't need much.

[Rumors are a] vehicle for anxieties and aspirations that may not be openly expressed.

Some people believe in God. I believe in music. Some people pray. I turn up the radio.

You know it's a perverted crowd when a guy is screaming at you to take your shirt off.

Nothing would make me happier than doing nothing but drama for the foreseeable future.

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada.

And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.

I was a straight man long before I knew what it was called. I was just the boring one.

The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.

You don't really see too many straight friendships between men and women on 'Mad Men.'

I feel very at home in an empty church. I feel the most protected. It's very mystical.

You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.

In a marriage, every fight is the same fight, over and over again, in different forms.

We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.

And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.

I live in the woods, so really the only way you can get to me is if you send a letter.

The Olympics show that your dream can come true if you work hard. It's not impossible.

I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined I'd be in a soap opera.

What takes us back to the past are the memories. What brings us forward is our dreams.

There are people who are victims in life, and I don't think they should be encouraged.

You ask my wife or my two sons, and they'll tell you that I ain't free with the money.

I'm the kind of guy who can't keep a plant alive for a week, let alone a relationship.

I think I'm an abstinence symbol. If I take my shirt off, people will not have babies.

I was in 'Rent,' for God's sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.

I played with a band in Austin when I was doing 'Friday Night Lights.' It was a blast.

My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'.

I expected that most of my career would be in dramatic acting. My hero was James Dean.

I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.

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