Actor

There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me.

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

I'm continuing to do research into biker culture.

I've never been pigeonholed and I've experienced so many different kinds of skin - what man will do and won't do, what you should do and shouldn't do. This is what's exciting about being an actor; where philosophy majors sit in classrooms or write books about human behavior, we're actually acting them out in front of cameras.

Season 4 can be deadly for a show that's been a hit show.

I'm just trying to make up for lost times, and I have total awareness that when the work is coming it doesn't mean it's going to continue to come, so I'm taking advantage of this phenomenal period that I'm in now, to its fullest.

Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality.

I'm a city boy.

I don't think that I've had a career like anyone else's, but there are hosts and hosts of actors whose careers I admire.

You can change the circumstances but you can never change man's inner nature.

I say yes to almost anything that comes my way.

So much of my aesthetic was formed by my dad.

1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.

You know, I don't read the blogs, or go on the internet, and I really just don't know what people are saying because... well I guess I'm afraid to.

Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out of business right now, because it costs so much to open a movie.

Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational.

I live in a bubble.

I think in the early part of my career, the roles were so disparate that it never gave anybody an opportunity to understand my essence and what I would be good at doing, as opposed to what I would not be good at doing, so these little moments of beautiful things that were happening to me were consistent, but very few and very far between.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

Some of the great characters that I've played had to be transformational.