I love showing up and giving a performance without the benefit of a lot of rehearsal or dissection. It's fun to me to act on a kind of instinctual level and go straight for the performance.

I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.

I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon. What he hungers for is definitely going to be affected by what he got or didn't get in those years when he was forming his psyche and his values. So I think villains are made.

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing.

Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational.

It's nice to get paid for therapy rather than having to pay $240 an hour for it.