"My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened."

"There was a small window when I wanted to be an astronaut. It may have coincided with not getting cast in a high school play."

"Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I began to realize that you went to school for it. I wasn't a bright kid, so it took me a long time to figure that out."

"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."

"I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't."

"Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart."

"Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it."

"Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world."