Just learn the whole script before you start shooting. That makes shooting a joy. Even if they rewrite, it's easy.

Shameless is a rough show, and it’s not for everyone, but it’s also beautiful.

It's hard on an actor when you have to do a scene 45 times and you know damn well that three of the angles a director is shooting will never make it into the movie.

Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.

I've got two little girls, I'm not scared about sex. I'll teach them, it's not going to kill them. But what could kill them is violence. Guns, drinking and driving, these are the real dangers in our society.

I love women. I always have. I'm not pretending that I understand them, but I just love women. I love being in their presence and I love everything about them.

We, in America, are so screwed up when it comes to sex. That's all we can see.