I like 'Breaking Bad' and 'Game of Thrones.' I like that era. I like that fantasy world.

I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.

I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.

I like 'Shameless.' The first season I just watched it straight through. I literally didn't get up. I just had to finish it.

I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country.

I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.

When I was I kid, there were so many different things that I wanted to be. As an actor, I get a chance to be all of those things, at least for a couple of days, which is fun.

We leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years

I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.

If there weren't so many professors, medicine would be much easier.

And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.

...we should always act as if it were impossible to fail.

While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend.

Many fathers go their entire lives without announcing how sexy their son's old girlfriends are.

We remain committed to the conference and fully anticipate that the Big 12 will honor its commitment to Texas A&M.

What's new?" is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow.