"I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it."

"It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115."

"I don't like watching people work if they're making art."

"I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore."

"I love animals and I love working with them because they don't lie."

"I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski "resorts "in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me."

"I mean, there's chemistry in life and there's acting chemistry. I'm not saying they're the same thing, but they're as mysterious."

"Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice."

"I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life."

"I don't want to know what happens in any movie that I go to see."

"I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it."

"I think we all choose our style from the ether and whatever is out there."

"In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive."

"I'm turning into a stricter dad."

"I don't make decisions based on money."

"I'm very proud of my Scottish blood."

"When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world."

"Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will."

"I drive an electric car."

"A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them."

"I really enjoy taking an outdoor shower."

"I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film."

"In high school and college, I was an athlete."

"I feel like I came to acting late in a way."

"Games, by nature, have more plot options and non-linear qualities than TV and film."

"I love the Lower East Side."

"I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do."

"I'm trying to protect what I advertise. That's my stance on any kind of self-expression."

"Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships."

"You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail."

"If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity."

"Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get, but that's kind of like cheating."

"There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience."

"I think people are always trying to demystify whatever acting is, so they want to know what your method is."

"I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character."

"Approaching a part or thinking about taking a part, I never think, 'Is that person like me?'"

"I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter."

"I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it."

"One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with."

"I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you can watch."

"I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter."

"When I started getting notoriety it was cheesy to appear in a commercial."

"I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing."

"There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor."

"I think of myself as more of a comic person. I don't know about a comic actor."

"I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature."

"I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though."

"One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you."

"For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids."

"You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children."