“I wanted to be a forensic scientist when I was younger. For a long time, I was studying because I wanted to do that sort of stuff.”

Everyone has secrets and everyone tells lies.

I like acting because I get to find different parts of myself, or at least create different parts that don’t already exist, and see the world through someone else’s eyes.

The first show I ever worked on was The Killing, which was a whodunit crime show.

Anything crime related and anything excessively bloody and violent, my brain immediately goes to the science. I think about, “How did you do this? How can we catch you?”

I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don’t want that no more.

It occurred to me that if I were a ghost, this ambiance was what I’d miss most: the ordinary, day-to-day bustle of the living. Ghosts long, I’m sure, for the stupidest, most unremarkable things.

If the Fleeting World is but a long dream, it does not matter whether one is young or old.

The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.

That’s the advantage of insomnia. People who go to be early always complain that the night is too short, but for those of us who stay up all night, it can feel as long as a lifetime. You get a lot done

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, these men [Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. DuBois] fought for African national and racial equality.

A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they’re married.