I have a long track record of really horrible relationships and a divorce behind me; so I'm not the guy to ask. I just got really fortunate with this one.

I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.

When I came out here, my manager thought that casting directors might think I'm a girl, and when I did Threat Matrix, they thought Jamie was a little light.

It's still about the women. It's not called Desperate Plumber. People are more interested in cat fights.

Real acting is realistic no matter what the medium.

I love David Caruso. I know it's not cool, but I do. I watch CSI: Miami. I think he's interesting.

I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that we don't all have the sort of arrogance it feels like they're perceiving from our leaders.

I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative.

I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more open-minded than that.

Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it's fun to know people are watching, and to know that all of your hard work is not sort of wasted.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

Why?"He stopped pacing and looked at her as if she'd just asked him to count every leaf on every tree in the Old Place. "Because... you're you.

I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

Even her pink bunny slippers seem to prick up their ears.

...and I know -I just know- you can remind me what it feels like to have someone look at me and love me with wanting me to be something else.

I coined this term 'freedom thru limitation' back in the '90s because I was sick of art being treated like pop, because of this boring 'anything can be art' theory.

Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once.

We like nonfiction, and we live in fictitious times.

Unconditional good heart toward others is not even a possibility unless we attend to our own demons.

I've read about eight or ten of the original novels, and one of them is where Maigret's in bed for the entire story! His wife is running around and solving the case!

We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.