I would love to be in the position where the role is challenging enough that I need three months to prepare for it and then six months to live the life of character.

There's a genetic memory that stays on your bones. What you experience when you're young, I think it stays with you.

Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off.

If you go to the real West Wing in the White House it looks like a boring law office; there's really not a whole lot going on in series. The moulding is frayed, the carpet is a little dirty; it's not exciting.

I love my wife but sometimes not so much. Frustration and fights can muck up a good thing. And just when a thing can move past differences and into the realm of peace and prosperity, another thing - an old idea or new interpretation or any spark that relights the paradigms that comfort us - will keep us where we are, where it is safe.

I wanna be in action movies, I wanna be the tough guy I wanna scare people.

I still have the mentality of someone who doesn't know where he's going to sleep and doesn't know if he has enough money for gas to get to the next job interview. I don't think that mentality ever leaves, you know?