It is my biggest fear, something happening to a child, your child, is unfathomable.

This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

That's the reason you want to become a star as an actor, to be able to have more control of your destiny.

Had "Malcolm in the Middle" been picked up I would not have been available for the pilot of "Breaking Bad." And right now someone else would be sitting in this chair talking to you. Not me.

The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.

[My father] had a massive middle-age breakdown. And left the family. And then it just completely fell apart. And my mother was heartbroken, just completely devastated. To make ends meet we started selling off all our possessions.

When the sun is shining, make hay, because it would be sunset on my career at some point, and when it is, I want to be exhausted.