I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.

For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really well.

I like science fiction. I took all the accelerated classes in school. I'm kind of a dork.

It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.

I can't claim I'm truly a man's man, I'm just as much of a dork and a crybaby sometimes as anybody else.

Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.

The people who believe that their soul is being crushed by playing a particular role need to take a vacation or check into the looney bin for awhile.

The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.

I love the process of acting, simply because I like to play make believe. But for me, it is purely make believe and it is a process of playing.

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

Life in all its brevity deserved to be lived, for the right reasons. Belonging Places.

If you don't change course - if you don't have something waiting for you, even if it's just to occupy you until you turn eighteen, you're not going to make it. You need to make a plan for next year.

My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. And when I die, they're $4 million in the hole.

I have been born again and again and each time, I have found something to love.

Five inches of snow in five inch heels, you can't look sexy and you can't look like you know what you're doing because you're fall.

Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.

I start with voice, maybe a sentence. That sentence might embody an image, and I go from there. One sentence to the next. Sound drives the work these days - sound before description.

The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.