'Desperate Housewives' is an ensemble cast, where I played a tertiary character. I made a lot of great friends, but that show didn't keep me very busy.

It costs nothing to say something kind. Even less to shut up altogether.

I don't expect anybody to know who I am.

My worst day is still a really good day. I complain, but I catch myself and count my blessings. I am truly blessed.

Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.

Thank God there is a such thing as hiatus. We got the first 'Dr. Horrible' done in six days, we banged it out.

I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,' and one of them is bullets.

Do something today you've been afraid to do. A decision based on fear is the wrong decision.

What turned me on to comedy was - well, first of all, I like being able to laugh, I like people who can make me laugh.

I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.

I slowly came to realize that this job of being an actor, you spend most of your time looking for work. That is your job. Your job is auditioning. You spend very little of your time actually working.

My heart is filled with endless praise.

True purpose dies when true people who are suppose to keep it alive fail to give it life

With teamwork we are able to multiply our output and minimize individual input.

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

[History is] petrified imagination.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

A fool I am and I'll always be. They can change their minds, but they can't change me.

I don't want to be myself, ever. I'm terrible at a snapshot. Terrible. I blink all the time. I've got facial Tourette's. Unless I'm working and in that zone, I'm not very good at pictures, really.

In New York in 1915 I bought at a hardware store a snow shovel on which I wrote in advance of the broken arm .

Remember that 'plumber in space' is not such a bad setup for a story.