I think your text [script] is everything; it's what informs you; it's what gives you the given circumstances. Then you take that and you add your own creativity and your own spin on things and you make it personal. That's what makes that character and that text unique to you, when you personalize it. I think that's where your job as an actor comes in.

For every role, I brought certain elements of the character. Even on White Collar over six years, I tried to keep the set fun and breezy and Howard Hawks-y and very of the tone of the show.

I think every guy and girl would love to get to play Superman, at some point in their life.

I like not to know, unless it's something that I need to know, specifically, for how I color a performance.

Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.

I took movement classes that I wore my double-breasted suits to. I worked on my elocution because people spoke differently then. I was really trying to toe the line. I think that if I had spoken exactly the way that people spoke back then, it probably would have alienated people.

I pretty much got busted for everything, but I definitely stretched out my boundaries as a kid, as well.