Taking power away from a man is a dangerous thing. Someone always pays.

I left the studio at 5:30 in the morning. It's an incredible mind exercise. You have to, obviously, have stamina, but you really feel like you're kind of feeding your mind. It's a challenge of learning lines very fast and then you have to be lose enough to hopefully make good choices in a much shorter amount of time that it takes to film certain scenes.

I'm not a natural ocean person. I married into a family of swimmers, and I've slowly been drawn into the sea.

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.

It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.

My fellow actors inspire me a lot and really good writing inspires me. And then trying to stick to the decision to only do something that I think will challenge me and that I, personally and very subjectively, I think is good not do something because I think it will bring me a lot of money or bring me a lot of awards. I've tried to very, very rigorously be highly subjective about what I do. And that's something that I think I have basically lived by.

There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.