Patrick J. Adams

“I just wanted to do it all. Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it, and I had never been on set before. But, from the minute I got on set and did 'Old School,' I was like, 'I want to do this!'”

“I believe in picking a strong ending.”

“Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.”

“Working on a show for seven months is, as it turns out, kind of exhausting.”

“I probably get eight straight hours of acting in an entire season or two seasons of 'Suits.' It's broken into such small pieces.”

“We'd get into trouble a lot in school, and I could sweet talk my way out of it. I was really a charmer: I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down, and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.”

“'Suits' is 'Suits.' It's grown and changed and evolved in lots of ways that I'm super proud of, but as an actor on a show like this, you try and make it something other than what it is sometimes.”

“It's the big question of every TV show, right, where you have these two people who it's clear the world wants to put them together and everyone wants to see them together, but also when you're telling these stories you can't throw these people together immediately.”

“High school was a complicated, confusing time for me. I wasn't confident, didn't know who I was, and was hiding from myself a lot.”

“I actually dealt blackjack for a summer.”

“I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.”

“I was always into film, but theater was my entry point. I always felt like film didn't make sense to me as a kid. It was just so magical that I was like, 'There's something going on back there that I don't know.' But, when I watched theater, it was something that was happening in front of me.”

“I'm a Virgo; I naturally love to organize things.”

“So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.”

“I always travel with one book. I'll read it and then leave it for someone else, and take another book.”

“I don't think people can die on 'Suits.' It's still, at its heart, an aspirational show, and it would be so hard to watch these people wrestle with that.”

“I do think we have a responsibility to be aware of the stories we're telling and how those stories will be interpreted and what sorts of value systems we're celebrating.”

“The thing I learned about suits is that they only fit you for about a week after you've had them tailored.”

“I love Robert Capa.”

“I just love shows that don't hand everything to you, that ask you to be smarter. I think that's something really important that HBO has done to change the landscape of TV.”