Persistence pays off.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Showing fear is like having comedic timing because I think actors have a tendency to go way over the top with it, and that sort of loses steam for what's going on. The audience sees right through that and laughs at you, so it is something that I'm aware of.
I have this weird allergy where metal can't touch my skin.
I feel like every day I'm exceedingly lucky.
Women are surprised to see me on the street - like they're seeing a ghost. There's a lot of crying involved.
There are a lot of weenie American actors, and a lot of foreign actors are having the luck.
I've called myself an actor - I won't say I've been an actor, but I've called myself an actor - since 1989. That's when I moved to Los Angeles.
I'm not trying to be an action star, and I'm not trying to be a romantic-comedy guy.
I go to Comic-Con every year, generally with some project of some sort.
I don't think that I'm as big as Lobo is, but if you could, like, transplant Mickey Rourke's body on my head, that would be just great.
Once I got over my initial butterflies, being in the same room and doing a scene with Jimmy Caan was great. I never backed down for one second against him. I loved it. I love those moments. Working with people like that is the greatest joy you can get as an actor.
In any character you do, especially something like 'Watchmen,' if you're gonna do this, you're gonna do this right. I'm fighting for the Comedian every step of the way; there's not even a question, Adrian is a scumbag.
It's hard to boo a puppy. You can't boo a handful of puppies.
I can't say enough about Ireland. I can't. I'd move there.
I'm a complete skeptic when it comes to the supernatural and all that. I've never had any ghost stories or any kind of weird experiences.
I love Bill Murray, but I'm not quite Bill Murray. I wish!
It's just as easy for me to be building a fence somewhere and scraping by on unemployment in between doing a guest star spot. I've been there.
Shooting all day in the rain is not where you want to be.
'The Exoricist' and 'The Shining,' there is some horrific stuff, and it's mostly what you put in your own head, which I find amazing.
I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.
In a Western, you talk more with your eyes and your actions than you do with big speeches. I love that.
My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.
I didn't even know what a mark was, but I fell in love with acting.
Puerto Rico is beautiful. I mean, I love it. But it's hard to film here. It's hard to film an action movie here where you're outside, and you're running around all day.
I think, as I've gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do.
Ian McShane's character in 'Deadwood' was awesome.
I don't need to practice my swing. I grew up with a bat in my hands.
I always was irritated doing network television... You're in love, you make love. That happens.
Since Chris Albrecht took over the network, I think more and more people are finding Starz. He made HBO what HBO became, and now he's doing the same thing at Starz.
The last decade has been a little rough, so I'm hoping to start this one on the right foot.
In a Western, you don't over-explain.
There's that rule, don't work with kids and animals. There's a reason for that!
I was almost ready to call it quits - sick of doing a job and then being back on the unemployment line and trying to make ends meet. But I loved acting and didn't know what else to do.
Acting is a hard profession. More than anything, it takes fortitude.
A 12-year-old can watch 'Spiderman.' A 12-year-old cannot watch 'Watchmen.'
If you look at my resume, I've more often than not played a very solid, decent human being.
I just didn't want to get bored playing a character, and that's kind of the benefit of doing films; you've lived with a character for four or five months and that's it, and you walk away from that character and you feel like you told a story.
The work I'm doing on 'Watchmen' is mind bending and physically just hard.
I'm easy to get along with - I'm not a diva.
Jon Hamm - I know him. I love him.
Shonda Rhimes, especially, saw something in me that no one had and then wrote to my strengths for 'Grey's Anatomy.' That's the job I think really opened up a whole new world for me.
I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning.
The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play.
There were rumors I wasn't going to die. The whole cast was sitting around the table reading the script. I fell on the floor - I'm not kidding. I looked up at Katherine Heigl, and she was crying.
Working exterior nights in Vancouver, when it's raining and snowing, is a little daunting, when you haven't slept.
Sometimes in TV, it can get really stale, especially if you're doing these 23-episode years. It's a lot of work, and to put your family through that, on a location, is not always the greatest thing in the world.
My kind of success has come a little bit later in life. I'm not 20 any more and these people I've been working with have been successful and good at what they do for a long time.
I'm learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I've been having and it's good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and see how they behave and it's why they are who they are and why they're still successful.
Alan Moore's first choice to be the Comedian... was Burt Reynolds. But I never saw myself as Burt Reynolds; I saw myself as Edward Blake.
I wasn't very good at it, but I knew that I loved acting immediately.
