I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

I mean, the competition is really created by the buzz around the Emmys. It's a totally subjective thing.

I think Dexter is a man who ... a part of himself is very much frozen, or arrested in a place that is pre-memory, pre-conscious, pre-verbal. Something very traumatic happened to him, he doesn't know what that is. And I think on some level he wants to know. He denies his humanity, he describes himself as someone who is without feeling, and yet I think that he maybe suspects - in a way that maybe isn't even conscious yet when we first meet him - that he is in fact a human being.

For me, it was more a dramatic shift to go from the stage to the screen.

I think we're really - we're doing a really great job doing our show, and other shows are doing a great job doing theirs, and we'll just see what people have to say.

I think anybody would be hard pressed not to relate to at least one of the characters, because there's so many different multifaceted people populating this crazy world.

As time passes, I feel more and more a sense of acting being a fundamental part of who I am.