If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer.

The programme’s evolving constantly, and it may well go back into more psychological horror – these things tend to go in cycles in long-running shows.

I’m a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are.

I just wanted to act. I didn’t want to do anything else.

That’s why Ged is perfect for an actor because he’s the hero, but not a classic hero in the sense that he does good all the time.

I’m not gay, so I don’t know much about Broadway musicals.

It seems there’s a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.

My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.

There’s one site where you can buy pictures of me for five bucks a pop.

I’m not able to go in with an act that I use month to month year to year all the time. It’s constantly evolving and changing and that keeps me on my toes but certainly...

I really enjoy the people. I find them to be better educated and wittier.

I would love to stay at SNL forever. But you can’t stay in the same place. People think you’re a loser.

It’s certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it’s also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy.

People are either enamored with me or wonder if they can take me.

They’re still keeping up the wonderfully inventive storylines, but for instance that movie, SEVEN, it’s fairly graphic, but still very good.

If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials...

I think everyone has some fascination with what’s outside our existence. It’s a constant journey to find the truth.

I basically was a precocious little kid.

It’s not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it.

People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success.

Two shows at once is crazy, but I love it.

It’s always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.

I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I’m not Russian.

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I’ve been doing it ever since.

L.A. to me is not really an attractive place.

When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas...

We both have a great loyalty to it, and I think that it’s important to give it our best shot.

My two boys were the same ages as the kids in the show. In real life or in between the breaks I was raising two kids off camera who were not unlike the two kids...

I think that one of benefits of being on a critically acclaimed show is that people have an understanding that maybe you can act.

I had my first play produced when I was 14; it was my way of competing in the neighborhood I grew up in, a sort of tough neighborhood.

My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands.

And I’ve been lucky in that I haven’t had another job besides acting in the last five years.

When I’m on my deathbed, I’ll hopefully be able to count more friends than parts that I had.

On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity.

I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.

I mean, I’ve been in a hundred and fifty films; I don’t want to just sit around and talk about things.

My heritage is English, so I’m proud to be back here.

My first one was called How Men Have Babies which is the pregnant father’s survival guide and this will be about the first time your kid does things.

At Christmas, It’s a Wonderful Life makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it’s coming.

When you’re doing a series like this, you’re constantly looking for new ways to excite your audience.

So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the...

I would like to look back on my career and be proud of what I’ve done.

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

My sister is a nurse and saves people’s lives.

About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes...

Certainly, when I walk into an audition, a lot of people already know who I am.

You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don’t fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.

So we had psychiatrists and counselors and therapists around the set regularly, especially for those scenes in which Jason would be dealing with a patient to make sure we were doing it all appropriately.

I’m living in L.A. but my heart’s in Vancouver.

I want to make smart television.