Jeffrey Dean Morgan

A 12-year-old can watch 'Spiderman.' A 12-year-old cannot watch 'Watchmen.'

My kind of success has come a little bit later in life. I'm not 20 any more and these people I've been working with have been successful and good at what they do for a long time.

Turns out I'm getting old.

I always was irritated doing network television... You're in love, you make love. That happens.

I've worked with kids that are just horrendous, and it's mostly because of their parents.

I go to Comic-Con every year, generally with some project of some sort.

It's hard to boo a puppy. You can't boo a handful of puppies.

I've called myself an actor - I won't say I've been an actor, but I've called myself an actor - since 1989. That's when I moved to Los Angeles.

The last decade has been a little rough, so I'm hoping to start this one on the right foot.

I literally will write Shonda Rhimes, the creator of 'Grey's,' an e-mail once a month or so and just say, 'Hey, I love you and thank you.' That was my moment. Because of that, I'm doing 'Magic City.'

Jon Hamm - I know him. I love him.

It's just as easy for me to be building a fence somewhere and scraping by on unemployment in between doing a guest star spot. I've been there.

Alan Moore's first choice to be the Comedian... was Burt Reynolds. But I never saw myself as Burt Reynolds; I saw myself as Edward Blake.

You kick around long enough, and good things can happen.

The work I'm doing on 'Watchmen' is mind bending and physically just hard.

I can't say enough about Ireland. I can't. I'd move there.

I love myself a truffle. I can put a truffle in anything and make it good.

I'm easy to get along with - I'm not a diva.

I think, as I've gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do.

I love the challenge of having an audience know what you're thinking without having to tell the audience what you're thinking.

In a Western, you don't over-explain.

I live in the woods, so really the only way you can get to me is if you send a letter.

In any character you do, especially something like 'Watchmen,' if you're gonna do this, you're gonna do this right. I'm fighting for the Comedian every step of the way; there's not even a question, Adrian is a scumbag.

I've always had a problem showing fear on a film.

I've become accustomed to playing the good guy - maybe a rough exterior, but a heart of gold in there somewhere.

I'm not trying to be an action star, and I'm not trying to be a romantic-comedy guy.

I don't need to practice my swing. I grew up with a bat in my hands.

Being an actor is a crazy way to spend one's life. It's the love of the game. Blind luck has a lot to do with it. Then you hope when you get your shot that you know what you're doing.

I'm just a happy guy.

The great thing about Starz is that there's not a lot of restrictions.

I was almost ready to call it quits - sick of doing a job and then being back on the unemployment line and trying to make ends meet. But I loved acting and didn't know what else to do.

I just didn't want to get bored playing a character, and that's kind of the benefit of doing films; you've lived with a character for four or five months and that's it, and you walk away from that character and you feel like you told a story.

Since Chris Albrecht took over the network, I think more and more people are finding Starz. He made HBO what HBO became, and now he's doing the same thing at Starz.

I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.

I wasn't very good at it, but I knew that I loved acting immediately.

I've got a love affair with Harley-Davidson. One of my earliest photos with my dad is of him holding me as a baby on his bike.

I love what I do for a living, but the other side, that aspect of being famous or a celebrity's got zero interest to me.

I'm a complete skeptic when it comes to the supernatural and all that. I've never had any ghost stories or any kind of weird experiences.

I think the challenge for me in this role is going to be, is there any heart in Negan? For me, I look at that as a challenge as an actor, and that's the kind of thing that I embrace and really look forward to.

I have a lot of respect for what I do, for this profession.

Shonda Rhimes, especially, saw something in me that no one had and then wrote to my strengths for 'Grey's Anatomy.' That's the job I think really opened up a whole new world for me.

There were rumors I wasn't going to die. The whole cast was sitting around the table reading the script. I fell on the floor - I'm not kidding. I looked up at Katherine Heigl, and she was crying.

Women are surprised to see me on the street - like they're seeing a ghost. There's a lot of crying involved.

A family going through a divorce, a child under attack by a demon, all these things I could relate to.

There are a lot of weenie American actors, and a lot of foreign actors are having the luck.

I feel like every day I'm exceedingly lucky.

The directors you want to work with are in the television world.

I'm not one of those guys who is going to dye his beard. I'm not that vain.

I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning.

Working exterior nights in Vancouver, when it's raining and snowing, is a little daunting, when you haven't slept.

I think, before 'Watchmen,' I was the guy from 'Grey's Anatomy' who's a pretty good guy, a pretty charming sweet guy, and so as an actor, I really wanted to do something as far from that as I could.

There's that rule, don't work with kids and animals. There's a reason for that!

I had no intention of being an actor, ever.

I like to push myself, you know.

I love Bill Murray, but I'm not quite Bill Murray. I wish!

To do this movie in a watered-down fashion or have these characters be watered down wouldn't have been near as effective. It wouldn't have been staying true to what this 'Watchmen' phenomenon is.

'The Exoricist' and 'The Shining,' there is some horrific stuff, and it's mostly what you put in your own head, which I find amazing.

I grew up with my uncle's comic books at my grandma's house, so I've always loved my comic book reading.

If I could just make Westerns for the rest of my life, that's all I would do. It's my favorite movie to make. There's something about being a cowboy.

He is scary as the butcher, but you will not meet a lovelier, more interesting guy than Danny Huston. His stories leave me spellbound. I adore him.

I usually play tough guys and stuff like that.

My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.

I feel like if you shoot one scene all day long or you take two days to do a scene, that scene is going to be stale.

I don't think I could last in anything for 10 years doing a character.

Persistence pays off.

I want to be with people I care about and hang out with my dogs.

If you outsmart your audience, you're going to lose them.

I am a family man at heart.

Miami is not optimal for raising a child.

Ian McShane's character in 'Deadwood' was awesome.

Within a five-month period, I got 'Weeds,' 'Supernatural,' and 'Grey's.' I think a lot of it had to do with luck.

Showing fear is like having comedic timing because I think actors have a tendency to go way over the top with it, and that sort of loses steam for what's going on. The audience sees right through that and laughs at you, so it is something that I'm aware of.

If you look at my resume, I've more often than not played a very solid, decent human being.

I've been kicking around this business for a long time.

I'm learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I've been having and it's good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and see how they behave and it's why they are who they are and why they're still successful.

I've done tons of guest spots and in parts where the character invariably dies or is dead.

I know that my foot is firmly wedged in the door, and I'll be damned if I pull it out, even for a second.

I haven't watched a lot of episodes of 'The Good Wife.' I never even saw the show until I signed on, and then I watched seven episodes.

I didn't even know what a mark was, but I fell in love with acting.

Not naming names, but it shocks me, some of the people who get the breaks.

Comedian sort of enjoys the darkness because, essentially, he's a thug. He's just not a nice guy.

I've been dipping my toes back into TV.

I was an artist - I fancied myself an artist - I sold paintings at bars to pay my rent.

I think you judge your career by the scripts that are being sent your way.

I've got a different life. I live up on a farm; I don't have anything to do with social media.

What's special about Miami is the collision of cultures. And the white sand beaches and fantastic restaurants.

I love acting, but the star part is not my bag.

Puerto Rico is beautiful. I mean, I love it. But it's hard to film here. It's hard to film an action movie here where you're outside, and you're running around all day.

Shooting all day in the rain is not where you want to be.

If it's football season, all things sort of stop. I'm from Seattle, so I'll watch the Seahawks and whatever other game that day is worthy.

I do some of my best work when I'm dead.

Moths are okay. Actually, moths don't bother me near as much as, say, spiders do.

Acting is a hard profession. More than anything, it takes fortitude.

Once I got over my initial butterflies, being in the same room and doing a scene with Jimmy Caan was great. I never backed down for one second against him. I loved it. I love those moments. Working with people like that is the greatest joy you can get as an actor.

It's mostly women who I get really weird fan mail from.

I was a huge fan of the original Red Dawn. America and brothers, you can't beat that in my world. I think there's nothing greater.

I don't think that I'm as big as Lobo is, but if you could, like, transplant Mickey Rourke's body on my head, that would be just great.

In a Western, you talk more with your eyes and your actions than you do with big speeches. I love that.

I have this weird allergy where metal can't touch my skin.

Sometimes in TV, it can get really stale, especially if you're doing these 23-episode years. It's a lot of work, and to put your family through that, on a location, is not always the greatest thing in the world.