Given the loss of a child or the birth of a child or anything like that, I think it's just I'm more moved by life, the older I get, so it's easier to connect to the characters that I play.

I think that's something that always enticed me about the '40s - back then, the glamour and the style - you couldn't really make it up. You just were or you weren't. You either fit in that world or you fit in the other. Things were very cut and dry. Things were simple. There wasn't a whole lot of excess or flash to be flashy; it was real flash, and real excitement.

[With] this show [This Is Us], I don't think I was seeking something outside of the world I'd always played in so much as I'm ruled by characters. If it's a great character, I'm invested. It doesn't matter what the genre, what the storyline, anything.

My job is always going to change; the characters that I'm playing are always going to change. I look forward to playing a grandfather at some point.

People forget that actors are actors, who are looking to put on the clothes and the character, and then shed it just as easily.

I'm tough on the outside and soft on the inside [...] I'm really a shy guy.

I think we need to feel, to come together, to look at our differences as a benefit to who we are as people on the same planet.