American Quotes

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

I'm very focused on 'Dexter' right now. I want to make it as good of a show as we can.

I think we're really - we're doing a really great job doing our show, and other shows are doing a great job doing theirs, and we'll just see what people have to say.

I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.

I think anybody would be hard pressed not to relate to at least one of the characters, because there's so many different multifaceted people populating this crazy world.

I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

I mean, the competition is really created by the buzz around the Emmys. It's a totally subjective thing.

I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am.

I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?

For me, it was more a dramatic shift to go from the stage to the screen.

Well, I was fourteen in Texas. But I looked twenty-five.

We used to go to Studio 54 - an amazing place.

Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!

The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go.

My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.

Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.

I've dabbled in several different religions.

I've always gotten along best with artists.

I'm a very bad citizen. I've never even voted.

I'm a bit of a groupie.

I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it.

I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me.

I love mysticism - it's such fun.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

I have very old-fashioned tastes.

I have done a lot of theater.

I have absolutely zero interest in politics.