Right before I got 'Sons of Anarchy,' I actually quit acting for 18 months and didnt read a single script, and I wrote a film. I felt like I needed to do something that I had control over, as an artist, and also just do something where I felt like I had some control over my life, as just a human, out in the world.

I'm happy being an actor, it's what I have always wanted to do. I'm just lucky I got to do it so early.

There are definitely worse people to be compared with. I think Brad Pitt makes interesting decisions.

It always seemed to me like it was a significant thing to do with one's life to be an actor 'cause I love movies and I felt like, not to be grandiose about it, but there is something important about film with the function it provides to general society.

It's generally more fun playing the villain

The landscape of cinema is not original. Not to say there aren't great movies being made, but it's much easier for studios to make movies that have built-in audiences. So it's all remakes, adaptations, a lot of remakes of adaptations.

I've been profoundly germophobic since I was a young child. I don't want to kiss anyone but my girlfriend for my whole life.