"There are a lot of times that if a detail in a scene or a beat, feels unnatural, they'll allow me to explore another direction to go until we're all comfortable with what we are doing."

"I think we take for granted police officers and detectives that walk into some pretty heinous situations, and they really have to be very brave. So I love playing a character that's very brave - someone that kind of dives in the fire to figure out what's happened."

"Over the years, I've gotten a little bit thick-skinned when it comes to the acting thing."

"I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death."

"Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people."

"What makes the United Nations an appropriate source of legitimacy for intervention is that it is the only place where the claims of the strong are put through the test of justification in front of the weak."

"The ocean of adversity cannot drown the spirit that resolves to stay afloat. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"The guy who sits in front of the television is unengaged. That man is a bad man."