If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in actin….

Corporate Hollywood thinks I'm a geek to go back and do theater. They don't understand why I don't want to be a movie star, why I'm not pursuing Mel ….

I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing….

Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a nig….

One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility..

Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against th….

There’s no greater search than that of lost love..

Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without b….

I know a lot of actors who've just gotten bitter because they did something and then nobody ever saw it or whatever..

A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them..

I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until I was 20 to graduate. That's w….

Theater in Chicago will always be my first love. It started careers for me and about 50 of my friends. We all love coming back. As soon as the TV sho….

I won't miss Grissom. It was a complete life for me that's reached its end, and it's reached it in the right way, I think. So I won't miss Grissom. A….

The show can go on without me, and probably will, but I want to come back to act in Chicago. My wife and I just bought a condo downtown, and I want t….

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it..

Writing is a vessel...with readers the ocean and authors as its sails..

Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was n….

If I could change on thing about myself, I would: Have better knees. Mine are shot because of injuries. You're only as good as your legs, whether you….

I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is ….

I can't figure out how they decide on those things. So I don't have any regrets about anything that I did that didn't get a lot of people to see it..

Grissom is a character who doesn't really want people poking around in his life. He likes to poke around in his work..