I was a baseball player. I played in high school and a little bit in college. I was a catcher. I don't know if I could have played any other position. As a catcher, you're always on the ball.

To be honest, I don't think there's anything more exciting than an empty stadium. When you see it empty like that, all you see is possibility.

White Collar' is a show about the unlikely pairing of an FBI agent and an ex-con solving smart, glamorous, interesting and provocative crimes in a sometimes very funny way.

I was young enough to certainly realize the excitement of how popular 'Seinfeld' was.

It is quite different, but I love doing a series because you get to live with a character for a much longer amount of time. And the other aspect of it is that you have a steady job.

Doing 'White Collar,' quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover.

I've always admired Gene Hackman, Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck. I'm showing my age here.

In order to be able to work with somebody in acting, you've first got to think that person's a good actor before you can enjoy working with them. I guess that goes with the trust.

I would just love to do 'It's a Wonderful Life.' I think that movie is fantastic.

I think USA has a great handle on programming and content. They know their viewers and they know what works... Character driven programming!

As actors, if you get a pilot on HBO or on USA, your odds are good that it's going to get picked up.

Women can do it all but that doesn’t mean they should have to.

When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present.

When you're not working is when you have to stay positive and remind yourself that you're talented.

We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world - but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first.

You have to suspend thinking in narratives. The moment you are conscious of yourself the gap opens up. And in this gap, stories are generated.

I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.

I don't believe artists should be subjected to experiences that harden the sensibilities; without sensibility no fine work can ever be done.

The boom squanders through malinvestment scarce factors of production and reduces the stock available through overconsumption; its alleged blessings are paid for by impoverishment.

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.