“I mean, I’ve never really had much security, to be honest.”

When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn’t necessarily do anything, but I’d pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.

I’ve grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.

Thank you, Hollywood, for allowing me to be part of your group.

I have 14 nieces and nephews.

I’m a character actor.

I’m obsessed with concerts.

I’m not a leading man.

I filmed myself drunk, just to see what I’m like. I watched so many funny videos of people drunk on YouTube.

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I’d done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

What’s so great about television. You’re able to tell a long story, where you couldn’t really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.

That’s the wonder of the internet. It’s the power of numbers: get enough people to retweet something, someone might see it.

There’s the really angry drunk, who’s just annoying to be around. I prefer the drunk who falls all over the place and is being completely inappropriate. Or the super-loud, happy drunk, which is evidentially what I am.

The best way to watch Breaking Bad is in the fetal position, sobbing.

When I go to set, I try to make it a warm, inviting and happy set. We’re all coming to work creating something, hopefully, beautiful together.

I think that for some people faith is good – they have something to draw to.

I think the best advice came from Drew Barrymore, about always finding love in everything you do and keeping a positive attitude and being thankful.

Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.

My dad used to say, ‘Just be yourself and you’ll be fine,’ but it’s really, really true.

I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other.

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I’m saying, ’cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I’ve ever felt to being spiritual.

There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato’s description of the Supreme Being,–that truth is His body and light His shadow.

I hope to keep bringing home bound paper books until my shelves snap from their weight, until there is no room in my apartment for a bed or a couch or another human being, until the floorboards collapse and my eyes blur to dim. But the book, bless it, is not a simple thing.

Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it’s by applause.