Isn't it funny? You hear a phone ring and it could be anybody. But, a ringing phone has to be answered doesn't it?

What I ended up doing was kind of crafting an idea for a story, presenting it to a writer - a dear friend of mine, Brad Mirman - and he ended up writing a beautiful script. I should've done that a lot earlier.

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

Theres a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.

I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press.

If you're going to break cinema, film, and movies apart, very rarely to you get the opportunity to even think that you've been a part of cinema.

Some people think it's because '24' was jump-started by what happened on 9/11. That was never why we made the show. We started production six months prior to 9/11, and we'd already done ten episodes.