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I love what I do. And in the true sense, from my training, I try to create a character each time. It is something I do. But I don't want that term to limit what I can do. I prefer people to say to me, 'You're one of my favorite actors,' rather than 'You're one of my favorite character actors.' It sounds like a slam.

I'm not entirely comfortable saying I'm an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost dorky thing to say you are.

Sometimes I don't feel like an actor. Sometimes I speak about it like it was another job, and then I go, 'Wait a minute - I am one!'

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

What I've realized, and had to become comfortable with, is that I'm just, I don't think, a star. I'm an actor.

I'm loving saying 'I'm not a big movie star, but I play one on television.'

My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.

Well, as an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.

I really feel that the best actors out there are very centric. They're really connected. They're not in a, 'What about me' state, and I think that's a good lesson in life.