Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.

Ripping up carpet is easy, tiling is the issue.

Use plants to bring life.

I've had rooms that didn't come out to my liking.

Inexpensive is good.

There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules.

Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.

I enjoy talking to fans.

I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren't ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that's too bad.

I am the young, edgy New Yorker.

I know people don't think I work.

In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.

I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.

I see the same coffee table everywhere. It's mass marketing.

I've made an incredible amount of money stealing fans from homeowners.

Little did we know it would be watched by millions of people and break viewing records.

Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.

I'm having the time of my life and I'm glad people are enjoy it.

I've enjoyed being a part of something from the beginning, when we were still finding our footing.

I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels.

Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over.

I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet.

It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

I was supposed to be the antithesis of Frank.

They don't know they're living in a glass house.

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

A challenge always is good. Normal design does not come under the constraints of a small budget and time frame. But it has helped me to make quick and knowledgeable decisions.

Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor.

Why stress tomorrow when you can stress today?

Honor must start in the heart but if it ends there it isnt honor. Honor must be expressed through words symbols actions or gestures. Honor is among the most incarnational of the virtues. It must have feet and hands.

Your deep interests should always have a dog-eared place on your nightstand.

The medievalist has the capacity, and the desire, to harmonize. He believes the planets sing in harmony; why cannot technology also sing?

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.

By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.

Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days.

For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.

It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre were numbered.

But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event.

The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier.