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 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.

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.

Before you make a decision, ask yourself this question: will you regret the results or rejoice in them?

There is only one real purpose of a real revolution: To move forward!

I am a runner. Not an actual runner, like with shoes and sweat. Instead, I specialize in leaving uncomfortable situations with alarming speed. Some people need closure, I need space.

Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them and do them justice.

All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.

I think the reward for doing comedy is doing the comedy itself. You get to go to work everyday and laugh and make other people laugh and to me there's no greater reward than that.

Hope for the best is what we do, right from the moment we're born.

Your task? To work with all the passion of your being to acquire an inner light.

I think God gave every one of us a cell phone, we just dropped it.

I still have things to learn, especially on defense.