I’d like to thank the academy and I’d like to thank my mother and I’d like to thank my mother again, because I forgot to thank her last year.

I don’t think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It’s all just pretend. That’s what’s fun about it.

The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism in them, … I think [Shore] intends to do the right thing, but...

I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.

When I moved there, I completely believed that anything was possible. I believed I could become part of the fabric of the city, and not by portraying someone, but truly.

The first perk of theatre is the girls.

It is my life,

felt badly about it in the end.

I didn’t really know much about the character at the time,

One of the things I like most about doing a television series is that I really don’t have any idea what is going to happen, … I love that.

Celebrity.

If I don’t need the money, I don’t work.

He’s a very strange guy,

[Kelley] said, ‘You know how you will have a friend sometimes who you are very compelled by and who you may love dearly, but they are very difficult to be friends with,’

I enjoy most that Alan seems to be happiest the stranger it can be. I don’t think it ever can be strange enough for him.

I had an idea of what David Kelley wanted the character to do, … He really wanted this very sort of volatile force at this well-established firm on ‘The Practice’ … to stir things up.

Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it’s not really worthy of it.