It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too.

I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker.

There are a lot of times that if a detail in a scene or a beat, feels unnatural, they'll allow me to explore another direction to go until we're all comfortable with what we are doing.

It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too.

No, there are some location shoots in Vegas, maybe four trips a year. It's shot in Santa Clarita, CA.

I have a Lab, it's fun to hang out and hike with the dog, people come up to him, and pet him, it's fun.

I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game.

To be honest with you, I get a little fed up with actors who act crazy to make themselves more interesting.

I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

Any time you put a cast like this in compromising circumstances or shake it up a little bit, I think we're all pretty close so we draw on real emotion.

I love what I do and I love the fans.

One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.

The show has boundaries right now we're trying to widen them not break them.

I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death.

Most of my stuff before CSI was kind of the jerk boyfriend, so I thought this was one of those deals, where these two have a thing going on, so we had a scene where they make out.

I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard.

I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore.

I work so hard for the fans who watch our show.

We give each other a hard time, but no pranks.

I'm interested to go other places, I've been the boy in the bubble since we've been shooting, I need to go travel a little bit, see where the action is, other than going to see family, of course.

Another challenge? Getting up at 6:30 in the morning to go act. It's not fun acting that early in the morning or acting at 4 A.M in the middle of the night or in the morning when you're really tired. That's a challenge. What a luxurious problem to have.

I think people would be suprised at how much we curse when we screw up. I'm like somebody with Tourette's Syndrome.

I think we take for granted police officers and detectives that walk into some pretty heinous situations, and they really have to be very brave. So I love playing a character that's very brave - someone that kind of dives in the fire to figure out what's happened.

Over the years, I've gotten a little bit thick-skinned when it comes to the acting thing.

I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.

Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most.

Usually, I'm over-analyzing things that have to do with my own actions.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

I have followed my heart my whole life - the crazy kid, a contrarian by nature, and I've been in trouble in points in my career.

When people blanket a whole class of people with statements, I just think that is unfair to everybody. I could do the same thing about media. I can do the same thing about politicians or lawyers, and they're just never accurate.

One hand washes the other.

I'm in the middle of my own 'Project Runway' challenge given to me by my daughter's preschool. All the parents have to make an outfit for their kids, for school pictures, made entirely out of recycled objects. I can not believe I have homework.

When I was 13 or 14, my parents had a bit of a windfall so bought a lovely new kitchen, but I burnt it down. I was making cheese on toast when flames escaped from the grill. My father stopped the fire with blind panic and excessive water. I was forgiven, but it put me off cooking for years.

My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.

Many people out there don't have a choice in choosing their friends and the people they're being manipulated by. Thank God, I have that choice. I can use my judgment and choose.

That's the scary part about TV, how you'll feel about it in six years.

Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

When men have come to the edge of a precipice it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.

I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother.

I never had the chutzpah to just come to L.A. and make it. I didn't have that confidence. I'm always surprised when I get a job.

The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.

We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.

The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.

Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You'd wake up in the morning, and you'd have no idea what your day was going to be. And that's something I've never been able to shake. I loved that.

You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.

What I'm interested in is how your career choices can affect your private life, romantically or with your mom, your relatives, your friends, your hometown, and how media manipulates information - not newspapers or blogs, but the magazines that people impulse-buy that tell you what's hot and who's not.

All of my writing is God-given.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.