Jonathan Banks

I probably carry a fair amount of sarcasm in my daily life.

Thank God for theater and film and television and my very, very, very lucky life.

I've played a lot of bad guys over the years, a lot of hardcore guys. At the same time, I've done a lot of comedy.

You can never know your lines well enough, and you better listen.

God bless my mother - she's long gone now, but she'd work all day and go to school at night. She started out in life as a housekeeper at 15 years old, totally on her own, and she retired as a college professor. But there were some hard times. It's not easy for a woman who's only trying to do the best for her kid but who could never be home.

There's a lot of people in my family who've adopted children.

Ed O'Neill is just a good, good human being.

From the time I could visually perceive film or TV, I was just enthralled by it. I thought it was the most wonderful thing in the world.

We've all been the brunt of jokes at times.

I was a latchkey kid from the time I was 7 years old.

Wiseguy' for its time was good. It was really good. And it holds up still. But a lot of the restraints have been taken off now.

If I had my way, we'd rehearse things to death.