One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.

I don't travel for fun, because I travel so much with my work; when I'm not working, I mostly want to stay home.

Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

That's the great secret of humans: we're all the same person. The best thing to do is just go for the hug.

This whole notion of the acting career as a monopoly where you rise to power... it doesn't really work that way. I don't ever really feel powerful in any way. It's kind of the same thing it's always been: You just figure out what you want to do and you do it.

There's nothing routine about 'Boardwalk Empire.' It's like being in some secret society where they call you up and tell you where to go: 'Meet us at the corner of such and so.'

That could sound arrogant, I guess, but sometimes I feel like I have a bit of a Zelig thing. I'll blend in wherever. I'm from the South, so I'll have a Southern accent when I'm home. But if I'm up here in New York, I have a British accent.