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

I never felt like I was on solid ground, emotionally..

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 a….

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..

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 ….

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 t….

Damon Lindelof said, "There are three kinds of prophets - crazy people, like the Guilty Remnant, false prophets, who just want money, sexy and power ….

We were talking about television one time, and Damon Lindelof said he felt that, if Ernst Hemingway was writing for media, he would write feature fil….

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..

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

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 Ch….

The third season of the Leftovers came along and Damon Lindelof sent me the script to Episode 3, and I called him up and thanked him for one of the g….

I often give my wife Carol scripts I'm offered and want her opinion - because she's a really smart lady, and she's got nothing to do with this busine….

I watched some of Lost series. And I realized that the character they wanted me to play didn't really come in for a long time. It would have just bee….

I'm the most computer illiterate human being that ever lived. My grandkids do everything for me, and then they say, "I won't even explain it to you, ….

That one long scene in the Leftovers I have with David Gulpilil was seven pages long. When we finished it, Mimi Leder said, "I thought you were gonna….

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

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

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 ….

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….

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..