Many times - especially when I'm playing an historical character - I want to be really on target with how I create that character and really nuanced with who that human being might be. But I don't want to lose the likeness of me or the depth of my own personality. So meditation and my spirituality has helped me to realize that, yes, I want to get out of the way but I also want the ability to hold on to what the audience likes of what they see of me.

I have a lot of very, very powerful women in my life. My mother being the first.

My rule is simply "love what you do". That certainly has brought me to the place I where am at right now. It really has been with the work.

You can never lead unless you follow.

After 'Breaking Bad,' people are very frightened of who I am. They back away from me on the street.

In my culture, my mother's sisters are also my mother. And my father's sisters are my mother's, too. So I have many mothers. My mom has a fierce love for her children. And she's known to say things like if you die I'll kill you.

I'm a big fan of period pieces, and I'm a big fan of the old-time westerns.