You can't make people who you want them to be. That was a hard lesson for me.

People need to know you have to walk through that rejection, and it's only going to fuel you. If you can somehow look at it like it's a gift, you're just going to regroup, and work harder, and go deeper. So just embrace it.

I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can... The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease.

I think people are gravitating towards these period dramas because I think they're looking for a simpler time.

All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.

What's this? You're wearing the shirt of the band you're going to see? Don't be that guy.

When you do a television show in the States, you get the pilot, and then it's the great unknown. That's the way it is. It's this great leap of faith. It's the Russian roulette of art.