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

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.

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.

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

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.

For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime.

There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.

Students, when you want to say something, think about it three times before you say it. Speak only if your words will benefit yourselves and others. Do not speak if it brings no benefit.

A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.

Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.

How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.

We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.

One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.