Acting gives you cosmic permission to take a trip in movies that lasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the film is finished.

In my life, all of the best things that have happened to me have almost invariably been accidents or fate.

There was a play that was written by who I think is America's greatest playwright, and he wrote a small part in it for me. It was going to open in Chicago, and then go to New York. But then, he died. It was Arthur Miller. That was the reason I turned Lost down.

What I didn't realize about television was that's true of acting, as well. You have that space of time to develop who you are, and you can use more and more of yourself. The lines between that character that I'm playing and myself become more and more blurred and, after awhile, they just disappear, altogether.

Very rarely do actors, even with features, get to live with a part for that long and really dig into it.

They say God looks after kids and idiots, and I think actors are probably a combination of the two.

If you're going to be in a series and it has commercial breaks... People say, Oh, there's a difference between cable and network, and my response to that is, No, there's a difference between sponsored and not sponsored. That's the thing.

I love the way Damon Lindelof writes. It's almost like he was channeling me and he had my voice, even though the territory that those lines cover is unpredictable, and goes from raw emotion to laugh out loud funny but always true.

The full extent of the problem of hunger is not obvious to most of us. We see the homeless, but there are a great number of working poor, struggling to survive, who don't have enough money to put adequate food on the table. We must find a solution to this ever-increasing problem - and quickly.

I had a job on a newspaper in Wisconsin, and I started off as most reporters did back then: writing obits and free ad giveaways.

I'm not a comic book guy. I've never been to Comic-Con. I don't know anything about that. It's a whole different world.

Very often, when you're playing people who love each other, or who hate each other, you manufacture those feelings. You have to do that a lot.

You can't expect a man like me to be loyal to just one woman.

At my age, to still be able to do parts that are super physical, I'm lucky. I'm doing more fun stuff now than I ever have in my life. I'm just really fortunate.

The hard part about playing 'chicken' is knowing when to flinch.