Michael Scofield is someone everyone can relate to, but nobody would want to be in his shoes.

There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate.

Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.

I think what you learn, working on a film or TV set, is how to tune certain things out. You've got 60-100 people swirling around you, each of them with a very important job to do.

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

I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind.

It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.