My job is to interpret. I'm an interpreter. I can add things and bring unique qualities to the role that the writer may not have thought of, but someone else created the fundamental idea.

Im always taken aback by things that are successful that I think are just crap, and then Im completely surprised when things I do end up being successful because you walk into things and you never know Its just really remarkable.

I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and energies.

Its a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.

Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.

As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

The audience has spoken. They want stories. They’re dying for them. They’re rooting for us to give the right thing. And they will talk about it, binge on it, carry it with them on the bus and to the hairdresser, force it on their friends, tweet, blog, Facebook, make fan pages, silly GIFs, and god knows what else about it..