It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult.

You only cry for help if you believe there is help to cry for.

My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up.

I think ultimately that's why the audience will tune in longterm, for the characters and the relationships.

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself.

I didn't come to Hollywood to get on magazine covers or start my Porsche collection or to enjoy that kind of lifestyle, to go to the right parties and meet the right people.