Jesse Spencer

“I support firefighters.”

“Eight is my lucky number.”

“I'm really good at not getting sunburned because I wear zinc cream.”

“I started off with violin, then I started learning guitar, then I went to piano. But I self-taught piano just because I enjoyed it. I've always really enjoyed music.”

“Open-water swimming scares the hell out of me.”

“In terms of people who we call heroes - and I don't tend to like that term, and firefighters don't consider themselves heroes - but if you look at their job description, they are. Their job is to straight up save people.”

“I always find music guys writing about love. Think of something else for a change. I'm sorry, but it's been done, and it does work and it's good and all that, but I think something else would be nice.”

“I loved working on 'House,' but I never ever want to do another medical show. It's 'fiddly' stuff.”

“I did ride-alongs and did some firefighter training at the Chicago Fire Academy.”

“I did some good stuff over in the U.K., but I wasn't consistently working. For a while there, I was going, 'Do I really want to do this - should I go back to university?'”

“Mum decided that I could sing a bit, so she put me in a choir, which I hated, and it was just a nightmare. I was a rebellious sort of choirboy.”

“I live in a fantasy world where I think I'm immune to all disease. I don't get sick and haven't had anything major go wrong.”

“Firefighting inherently is a dangerous occupation.”

“Chicago's like Melbourne - there's a city center, there's public transport, and there's more of a cultural scene.”

“My first car was a '69 Holden, which is an Aussie car.”

“I've met many rich kids over the years. Many are very down to earth and work hard; they come from decent parenting. Others, however, are not.”

“First responders are a resilient lot. They deal with many types of situations and are very good at improvisation in their work.”

“'House' has opened a lot of doors for me. I've met a whole bunch of people and got a whole new bunch of contacts. I've got the golden ticket.”

“The idea of being charming and really nasty at the same time is a really difficult thing to do.”

“I love 'Battlestar Galactica;' I was a geeky kid. I was into Dungeons and Dragons. I had the 24-sided dice.”