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.

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.

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.

If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible.

I learned that day that there is no more lonely state than being in a lonely marriage.

The U.S. is, so far as I know, the only nation which places such extensive reliance on the polygraph. It has gotten us into a lot of trouble.

While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.

In a recent interview, Michelle Obama said that the Secret Service taught Malia how to drive. In exchange, Malia taught the Secret Service how to throw a party when her parents are away.

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

Case in point: Take adversity and make it an asset.

I couldn't stop throwing theories at [Jimmi Simpson], and eventually I was like, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I will stop talking about the show [Westworlds]. I promise."

I'm really happy. Really! I think people honestly just want to see me as a mum and married and barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. And I just want to say, 'Everybody, relax! It's going to happen.'

strength and beauty must go hand in hand