I ALSO find doing the mundane, everyday THINGS in life has a calming, creative influence on me. Some of my BEST ideas come when I'm vacuuming or WAITING in lines.

I can be so blown AWAY by STORY LINES.

I TAKE my TIME to GET into the mindset of the character and say my LINES. I really have to be the PERSON that I am playing.

I was moaning and grieving as if I LOST one of my own CHILDREN. It was probably one of the most real feelings I ever had on the show. I was just sitting there wailing with no lines. I was beat after that storyline.

We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve JOBS. We have to remember that there are other classic THINGS in life that we undervalue and TAKE them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's REALLY been there since early WORLD War II.

I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to LEAVE any legacy. All I've ever DONE is learn the lines and SAY them.

PEOPLE want to know and understand each other across lines of RACE, CLASS, gender, sexuality, ability.

I'm UNABLE to do the THING that Broadway actors do in plays, sometimes for YEARS. The same exact blocking, the same exact lines. I'm a little bit uncomfortable with that. Every night I'm looking for ways to try something ELSE.

MEN are governed by LINES of INTELLECT - women: by curves of EMOTION.

The WRITER is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we TORTURE them. The more we love them, and the more cleverly we torture them along the lines of their greatest VULNERABILITY and fear, the BETTER the story.

I feel like everything you LEARN as an actor growing up is wrong. You're supposed to HIT your MARK, FIND your light and know your lines. Those are all things that just make things wooden, DULL and boring.

I'm a technician. I don't GO for the get-into-the-role STUFF. I READ the lines and PLAY the scenes.

Any actor WORKING a LONG TIME should KNOW how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, LIKE the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.

I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to SAY anybody's EVEN THINKING of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, PEOPLE still recite lines to me, even 20 years later.

I sometimes THINK that what I do as a writer is MAKE a kind of colouring BOOK, where all the LINES are there, and then you put in the COLOUR.