“I think a lot of people feel like they may not get the recognition that they deserve, but that they can still kind of maintain and do good, and there’s a kind of quiet satisfaction in not being recognized for stuff.”

I think everybody really responds to the secret society aspect. This idea that you have to remain anonymous, and yet at the same time, you’re kind of saving the world.

I was trained at a conservatory school, and they usher you into the business by giving you a showcase. I was so lucky that I met with an agent

I never really said I wanted to be a TV star, when I was a kid.

You can get too heavy on the masculine side of things with all of the action, but then we’ve got a really nice balance going on when you go home and look at the wives’ story lines

You need to tune your instrument, which is your body and your mind, and your soul.

What’s going on on the home front. I think people really respond to that balance of masculine and feminine.

He sent me on an audition for a TV pilot, and I happened to book it. It was like complete luck that it happened.

The theater and film, they’re like two completely different mediums.

A lot of people kind of want to wait until you’re off a show before they book you into a movie.

I was trained in the theater, so I really learned a lot about how to work with the camera, just technically speaking, it’s been an amazing learning curve.

To any aspiring actor, go and train yourself.

There’s nothing like a good conservatory drama school to really get you ready for the work force.

It is not on the ruin of liberty that we may (in the future… – “pourra”, Fr.) build justice.

Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.

We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.

Experience shows that what great role pratice and experience play in education; pratice, the prolonged exercice lead to habit: exemple suggests imitation.

It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation.