I think when you get the opportunity to work with someone like Lars Von Trier... I mean, Alexander Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, just to work with those actors, you take that opportunity when you get it.

One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he takes charge.

I wasn't trying to do a play or do what Kevin Spacey did. I was trying to do my own thing with it.

Some days I'm in better control and can navigate my way through stuff, and other days, not so much.

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.

I didn't grow up with my dad, so it was always very funny to me, and always has been, what an important part DNA plays in one's life.

There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom.