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“My central strength as an actor is the fact that I'm 6 foot 3. A certain power emanates from my size, juxtaposed with the fact that I try to find an element of sensitivity in every character I play. People enjoy seeing that because it goes against what we're led to expect as far as the way men are supposed to be - macho and all that.”
“When we are out there selling a new picture, when did it become part of the deal that you have to sell the family? To use the juicy part of your life to get attention? I'm not blaming the reporters. It's the system.”
“Michael C. Hall is an incredibly detailed actor who can convey so much with just an eyebrow.”
“As an actor and as a performer, I've felt that the education system has really helped me in a lot of ways... there was always a teacher or a professor along the way that kept pushing me to the next stage.”
“I get my jolt of energy in New York. I get mi familia vibe in New York.”
“Celebrity hits like a bomb.”
“I'm usually very analytical when I'm prepping stuff: real into the head thing.”
“It's a lot of a workload doing an hour dramatic show. It's just incredible what little time off you get.”
“As an actor, you think to yourself, 'I want to do good work,' but you also want the work that you do to make an impact in some way.”
“I save the rage for the stage.”
“I had opportunities to stay on shows for long periods of time, and maybe financially that would have been good, but I feel good about trying to keep doing things that are a little bit different than what I've done.”
“An actor tries to be versatile, to immerse himself in a different culture.”
“What happens to George Clooney and Bruce Willis is great, but I can't gauge my career by anyone else's.”
“I'm not a policy wonk - I'm somewhere between being undecided and a surrogate.”
“Education is the key in so many ways.”
“I've been very lucky to work on a wide variety of projects, including two long-run and top-10 dramatic television shows. That is why it is so important to offer a helping hand to the next generation of young Latinos coming up behind me.”
“I wasn't a great student, but I was interested in this theater thing, and I could spend hours in the library researching why the cuffs in the 18th century had four buttons. It was my handle.”
“I've had the good fortune to play characters that have a role-model thing to them.”
“As an actor, I just want to keep mixing it up.”
“Variety is the thing for me to be able to work in theater and be involved in more films and TV movies that say something.”