The interesting thing about doing serial television is that the character is growing separate from you, the character and the show are growing, and you get to observe that and participate with it in a way that I think is actually really exciting for an actor.

Well, I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.

You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.

A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job.

I understand what's going on in this world. But cops have to go home at the end of the day. They have a family. They have to go home, too.

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

I didn't wake up one day and think, 'I'm not going to have children.' My mother was a housewife and brought up three children, so I just thought it would happen.

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.