I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character.

Action is pretty boring to do as an actor. Action and sex scenes are silly because it's all faking.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

I've got huge tubs full of X-Files memorobilia that I can sell on eBay.

I got married a bit late, I agree. In any other period of history I'd have been dead at that age and they'd have assumed I was gay. Like Michelangelo, or Leonardo da Vinci. But I was a late developer. I didn't go through puberty until I was 35.

Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice.

Maybe with "Californication" the character was partly based on Rick Moody. I read him and Jay McInerney, the templates for this bad boy novelist.