It's fun to get the script every Monday morning and go, "Cool!" I'm a professional actor, but I'm also a professional story lover. I get off on that thrill.

I've always been curious about the monster that lives under your bed. Even at 30 years old you lean over the bed to see if there's something under there, potentially.

I think there's something fun about television where, as an actor, when you read the script each week, it's like how the audience experiences watching the show each week.

My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story. She owes us her life. Its great leverage; we abuse it all the time!

I think I've found my passion in life. I'm going to direct a couple of short film on hiatus. That's what I really want to do.

Not everyone who sells Christmas trees believes in Santa Claus.

I have to give props to my stunt double, who is the real deal and gets to do all the fun stuff and make me look good.

My dad was a college football coach, so we're a big athletic family. I was either going to be an athlete or an actor. As an actor, I hoped I would be able to bond the two.

The little boy in me always wanted to be a treasure hunter.

Everyone holds a secret and that's just true about everyone. So at the end of the day it's amazing what people will do when they're backed up in a corner.

I think people's soul - I think you can kind of see it - there's what they say and there's what they do.

I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would.

Bittersweet: it's what life tastes like. And if you can handle the bitter, the sweet will come later. ~ Klyde, in Piranhas Like S'mores.

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

Be aware that the fire that does not grow is extinguished.

It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.

You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression.

Personality and salesmanship do not produce except in the competitive sense.

Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental and commercial.