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.

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.

I like things to be orderly.

I lead a very busy life and don't have a lot of time, so my skincare needs to be easy and portable.

It's impossible to be of service to others and feel sorry for yourself. Choose one.

I was never really happy until I became 'Doctor Who'.

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.

Some of the best actors think they're terrible; that's what keeps you connected to a vulnerability that makes it possible for people to empathize with you.

I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during a time in your life when you want to forget the world around you.

Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?

A politics that defines itself by difference holds no appeal for me.

I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn't enough time for something to develop musically.

I can count on one hand the people I could call and who would be there for me.

The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow.

If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.

I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.

I'm much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet.

The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.

There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.

As artists, our primary function is not to be educators - but we are at a time in history, where for us, our history needs to give context for stories that we hope to tell down the road.

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

The pilot came back and said he had just heard that Kennedy was shot.

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.