All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.

When I was a carpenter, I once worked with this Russian lady architect. I would tell her, ‘Look, I’m terribly sorry, but I want to change that a half inch,’ and she would say, ‘No limit for better.’ I think that is a worthy credo. You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.

I had no expectation of the level of adulation that would come my way. I just wanted to make a living with a regular role in a television series.

People need to see what's going on, and they have to be exposed to the mechanisms that can help make it right.

I haven't purposefully set out to play heroes. I'm interested in playing the character who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances. But he's really either just saving himself or acting in the service of something that's important to him.

The environment has become a political, polarizing issue.

I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.