Criticism is a surreal state, like a good drug gone bad. When it's bad you wish it would stop, and when it's good, you can't get enough.

I'm grateful for all the attention because it validates I'm doing something.

Don't forget who your heroes are, what they mean to you, and why they mean that to you.

Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. And you can REALLY hold their hands, not just sing about it. No disrespect to George Jones.

I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.

One cannot deny that if a person has the energy to get you interested and excited, then that is half the battle won, like all the great leaders had this quality.

I’ve learned the most from Randy Harrison. Because of his fantastic imaginary world filled with bizarre friends. He is constantly giving us good advice.

No apologies, no regrets.

You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.

My interests are not really with television, per se.

After I began to explore what an actor actually is, I studied for three years before I had the guts to go on an audition.

Lead us toward a speech, which is as beautiful as silence, and toward a silence, which is as beautiful as the sweetest and truest of words. (119)

Oh, you want me to lie still while you check me out? Damn, Red, if I'd have known that earlier I would've been horizontal already.

You are constantly becoming what you have been deserving to be, and if you do not like the scripting, you have all the mens to change it for better.

Insight is vision through the ‘mind’s eyes.

There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.

I accomplish more when I rest wholly in the labor of Jesus than I do when I frantically try to do the work for Him.

As estimated, you died. Things marched, sufficient, to that end. Just so much Zyklon and leather, patented terror, so many routine cries.

I dread the day I leave [Doctor Who], because then I'll have to go back to writing bedrooms and offices and pubs. And maybe a field, if I'm lucky.

The key is, if youre not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.

I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start - an inefficient way to write a book, though I found it exciting.