Eric Dane

“McSteamy's been really good to me. He's opened a lot of doors.”

“I'm not a big watcher of myself. You start looking at things you shouldn't be looking at that have nothing to do with anything of importance.”

“I like guys who, no matter what, are men.”

“I've never seen 'Game of Thrones.' I've never seen 'Breaking Bad.' I can't tell you one character outside of Walter White.”

“We've all made mistakes.”

“I always thought of myself as a big-dog kinda guy.”

“I couldn't comprehend a 35-year-old woman gravitating toward a 70-year-old man.”

“If I can get to the gym 3-4 days a week and spend 50 minutes to an hour and a half, irrespective of whether I lift something or not, I'm getting in shape.”

“I think when you're done with work, you go home.”

“I grew up in Northern California on the peninsula. It was a beautiful house, but it was very traditional. It wasn't midcentury modern. I'm talking 1970s, early '80s - design didn't even go 'Wall Street' until, like, 1986.”

“I'm out of bed before the alarm goes off.”

“Never ask a woman when she's due unless you know for a fact she's expecting.”

“With a pilot, there's a lot of information that gets packed into 46 minutes or whatever it is. Usually what happens is that, throughout the season, you get to spend a little more quality time with the characters and get to know them a bit better, whether it's based on circumstance or relationships they've created with other characters.”

“I never had a family, and now I do. I know I'm a very lucky guy.”

“I've always had a great feel for space and how objects occupy it.”

“Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as far as films go, and I've only done a couple; film is like a definitive beginning, middle and end. You know your character's arch.”

“The person I am is who I am. My life is my career, my career is my life.”

“My father served in Vietnam - the respect I have for the Navy is profound.”

“Love at first sight is different when you're 32 than when you're 22. In your early 20s, you fall in love after three weeks.”

“Being a parent is the toughest thing I've ever done. But I'm not the kind of person to throw my kid in front of a TV. I'm the one to take out a book, puzzle, or flash cards.”