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

Honestly, I think some of my family members of a certain generation were more skittish about me playing a gay character on Six Feet Under than watching me play a killer.

My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

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.

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 never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.