Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.

Most television shows are going to require an actor sign up from four to six years, but an anthology show really amounts to five or six months at the most. I thought serious actors might be attracted to that.

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

You just do the best you can, and when you're able to connect with people, and when you do, it's just incredibly gratifying.

We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.

The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.

You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a profit, and no artist is less in charge of how their work is presented than an actor, the appeal of Vince was that within a great naturalism, he can convey fierce intelligence, complex emotion, and a real warmth married to a real edge, strength and vulnerability and danger and humor. There are essential contradictions at work that makes him fascinating to watch.