Eric Dane

“What I love about acting is experiencing the absolute moments of - you know - of getting lost in the world you've created for yourself.”

“The action genre is not always the most synonymous with character development.”

“I make really good chicken soup, sort of from scratch. I don't make my own stock. I just use a base like a chicken stock, but everything else, all the ingredients, I do on my own.”

“I don't know if there's any change more significant that a human being can make than that of a woman becoming a mother. There's no change more dramatic.”

“On 'Grey's Anatomy,' I didn't have to move too much. I think I ran through the hospital three times.”

“I'm a goal setter, but in broad strokes. I don't have a by-October-2009-I-want-to-be-here plan. All I do is work with an element of challenge and an element of enjoyment. With that, anything can happen.”

“Going to the gym and looking for a specific result is a short-lived existence, as opposed to going to the gym and adopting it as a lifestyle. Develop a routine, because it's much harder to break it if you have one. If you have no routine, you have nothing to break, so discipline goes out the window.”

“Any free time I have, the family comes first.”

“I go eat a sandwich for lunch and have a milk shake and miss going to the gym for 10 days, and somebody snaps a picture of me on the beach, and all of a sudden, I've lost it. Why do I need to be perfect all the time?”

“There's a very mathematical, mechanical side to architecture, and I probably lean more toward that aspect of it, though I'm terrible at numbers. But that side appeals to me more than the decorating aspect.”

“I'm a hands-on dad.”

“I like lifting weights. And there is a cardio element to lifting if you're doing it the way I do it.”

“I can't say no to my girls. They melt my heart. I'm very grateful for my family.”

“I do like to cook. But I only cook a few things, but those few things I do really well.”

“Sometimes I feel like I'm lacking a playfulness. I envy guys who are consistently able to maintain a playful, optimistic perspective on things.”

“At the end of the day, you want to work with people you want to work with - regardless of what they've done. Being able to spend 15 hours on a set with somebody and enjoy every minute of it - that's what it's really about.”

“Some of the greatest actors on the planet are the most insecure people. Now I don't know if that insecurity necessarily equates to a lack of confidence. Some people are just very shy individuals. You give them a character to play and a script, and you put them in front of a camera or on a stage, and they just go.”

“I just try to leave my baggage at the door. I don't want to carry my stuff into a working environment with me, and I expect that from other people. If they can't do it, though, I'm surprisingly understanding.”

“My skin is very sensitive.”

“I loved doing 'Grey's Anatomy.'”