My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.
ROB LOWEIt was a role [Dean Sanderson] I hadn’t seen before, and yet it was very accessible and relatable at the same time. I read scripts that have one or the other, but I rarely read scripts that have both. And it was laugh-out-loud funny.
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Sam Seaborn is the best character that’s ever been written for me, certainly. By far. And it’s a timeless show [The West Wing], one that’s having another resurgence now, with people so in an uproar politically.
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Apparently Sodapop Curtis said “gnarly,” and Chris Traeger said “literally.” Every decade I have a favorite phrase I can’t stop with.
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As far as my work for causes or social issues, that’s something I’m doing as a private citizen.
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The umbrella that I live under is that you must be truthful with everyone except when to do so would injure them or others.
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Did you eat a lot of paint chips when you were a kid?
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It’s the media that take an isolated incident and make it a deciding factor in a presidential campaign, as opposed to the real issues, like abortion, the homeless, the deficit. The same is true with actors and their lifestyles.
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The press concentrates on a divorce an actor’s going through and they ignore the good performances he gives, or the causes that he works for.
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I’m not going to stop talking to people who come up to me in an airport. I’m not going to worry about what may be their ulterior motive.
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Ginnifer Goodwin said it very well – we’re not doing the Hall Of Presidents at Disneyland. This is my interpretation of [J.F] Kennedy.
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Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work objectively.
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I don’t look back with any bitterness, though there are a couple of judgment calls and some ’80s hairdos that I’d like to do over.
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I really make a point of never worrying, or trying not to worry, about the way I’m perceived. You’ll go crazy otherwise.
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Anyone who’s lived their life to the fullest extent has a scandal buried somewhere.
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I was sick of playing high-school kids. I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.
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I literally knew nothing when I did that show [“Tony Flanagan”]. It was the first time I signed an autograph, it was the first time I got fan letters, it was the first time people screamed when I came out.
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