I tend to get cast as a certain type of quiet, almost introverted person who's strong on the inside, but the characters are so very different I don't see it as any kind of typecasting.

What I'm normally associated with are darker, more brooding roles.

I'm no good at anecdotes.

I get claustrophobic in a harness. I'd be a terrible superhero.

It was both comforting and terrifying to go in to audition for 'The Girl in the Cafe,' as I'd worked with everyone in the room on 'State Of Play.'

L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.

It's that TV thing. You can be in the biggest film of the year and it will still not have the kind of impact a TV series has. Once you're in people's living rooms, that's it. There's no hiding place.

It can get a bit boring working on accents.

I've done TV and I've done film, and I'm not snobby about it. It's about the project.

I'm so not a celebrity.

I love that thing on Amazon that you can go on and order a book, and you click on it and it says, 'You might also like,' or 'Other people who bought this have bought that.

There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.

Do you feel your best when your strung out on your morphine and meth?

I didn't come out and pay a really painful price often, to be LGBT, to not claim my sexuality at the same time. It's not all right with me to not talk about it so I don't make anybody nervous.

Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing and writing.

I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players.

When Hailey was born my first thought was that I needed a drink and that hospitals should have bars in them.

My mother was an ex-nun, and my father was a Franciscan brother, so I grew up believing in Jesus the way anyone would believe in Mom's first husband.

Something you have to make...It's all work, work.

Jack leaned over, “Ever get the impression that these women are way out of our league?” “I shot the last guy who said that to me.

If I were a doctor nobody would be inviting me to talk to reservations. I'd be a different person. Writers can influence more people.