Actor

At my real wedding, I wore traditional Celtic garb - a kilt.

We live in a time of extremes. People think that, on a scale of 1-10, if they're not at a 10 for happy, they're not happy.

I try to make sure the projects that I choose are something that will teach me something new, either about myself or about my art.

I try to keep myself in a decently light headspace.

I think there is a time in every person's life where they have to let their parents go and figure out what being a parent means for themselves.

I didn't grow up in the Catholic church, but I went to a Catholic high school and a Catholic college, and the Jesuit priests are not saints floating around campus.

When it comes to relationship compromise, it's a fine balance between doing something for your own happiness, and finding happiness in being of service to another person, in whatever way that ends up being.

Joy and happiness don't strengthen relationships - difficulty does.

Taserface is loud. Taserface is the defensive lineman on your high school football team. He's a very loud individual who enjoys pushing people around.

In the past, I have assumed the word 'vulnerability' equates with the word 'weakness' and 'This Is Us' shows us that it is in fact the opposite.

When you're first pregnant, you don't want to talk about the idea that a miscarriage or premature birth is possible. The difficulties of things like that kind of get swept under the rug, and when they happen to us we are blindsided and think we are the only people going through it.

You can't develop full relationships with anybody unless you're fully honest about who you are.

Love is an action verb, and romance is the result of those actions.

I think the best part about music is that you can do it anywhere at any time and it's always with you.

Art is supposed to hold up a mirror to its audience and ask, 'What do you believe? What do you think? What do you feel?' and if you look at a painting and it makes you feel nothing, that's a feeling as well.

There are a lot of reasons why marriages don't continue.

I certainly like to swing the pendulum and try new things and to do things that are different from the last thing that I did.

As we've learned on a logistical level, anything is possible in the 'This Is Us' world.

The word 'Namaste' means 'the light in me reflects the light in you' and I think the thing that makes people attractive are the people who shine their light and the people who can recognize that light in others.

Generally speaking, talk to any stand-up comedian, the people in this world who are the brightest and have the biggest smile often are struggling with a lot of things under the surface.