“I have a passion for my work, and that can seep into you. It’s almost as if you’re drawn to it.”

I’m not sure what the future holds but I do know that I’m going to be positive.

It’s my job as an actor to commit to the role and not – through my own inhibitions – run away.

I like exploring life and its complexities.

It took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system.

The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.

I think it’s important that we don’t all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything’s fine.

People can tell you what to do, but ultimately, we’re all going to die, so how do you want to live?

It’s very easy for a couple to experience joy together. But when you experience pain together, it can lead to such depth and such union. That is when you fuse.

I think when you’re in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams it’s better than when you do yourself.

You’re either going to walk through life and experience it fully or you’re going to be a voyeur. And I’m not a voyeur.

I’m a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.

I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn’t get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn’t get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.

I was taught a very strong work ethic that included punctuality, which I’ve always felt is a sign of respect for others.

I don’t really make decisions, I go with the flow.

You can ask me pretty much anything. There’ll be things I’ll go, ‘That feels a little too personal.’ But most things I don’t have a fear of being asked about.

The things that go on in my head are far more interesting than what actually happens.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

It never dawned on me that I had the option of becoming a comedian. I come from a little dirt street town in northwest Texas, and they really don’t talk about the arts there much on career day.

But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

To use a metaphor drawn from glass, it may be revealing for us to re-focus.

I’m drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends.

Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal.

Blood is drawn! I am impressed-though my hell-spawned powers will heal it!

An opportunity to honor the legacy of the lives drawn into the lines in my face, the broad of my nose.