"I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes."
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"I'm a much better listener when I'm acting than I am as a person in real life because you learn as an actor that listening is so important. You have to really key into what the other person you're acting with is saying and how they're saying it and react in the moment to what is going on."
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"I think a lot of times when people have "creative blocks" and I know my share of friends do as well if they're at just some stuck point. They're not sure what to do with their lives or their writing or their photography or their filmmaking or whatever it is that they're doing. I think the best advice is you have to change your life up completely; to go on a trip, to go spend a year being of service. Be willing to take some major drastic action to get you out of your comfort zone and go inside, not outside."
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"I think meditation helps greatly with creativity. If it's a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium, it's going to shine. It's going to resonate."
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"I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing."
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"I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child."
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"My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays."
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"You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for."
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"Absolutely. I am a father, and I know best. If there's any question, just ask me."
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"Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters."
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"Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature."
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"I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic."
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"I was this weird misfit guy from suburban Seattle, I never really fit in, and then I became a drama geek, among all the other different kinds of geek that I was growing up, and I found I was pretty good at it."
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"A lot of actors are just like la la la - they're never really connected and then they're in the scene and then boom. They're looking you in the eyes and they're just really focused."
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"I am all for controlling guns."
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"I think that actors are terrible communicators as people by and large. I think our tendency is to kind of be self-centered and tune people out and just kind of get really me-focused, so I think communication for actors is a big challenge actually."
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"I play Dwight. That is just much me being of service and worshiping as if I'm on my knees in some temple somewhere or bowing my head in prayer to God in some way. It's really all just the same thing."
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"I think it needs to be with a heart-based wisdom and this heart-based wisdom needs to go hand in hand with science and with social activism and love for our planet and love for our whole human family that spans the whole globe and this may sound very high and mighty or airy-fairy, but it's going to have to go to that or else we're just all going to destroy each other."
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"We live in a really sexist culture, that's got to be addressed. And a really homophobic one. And all those things need to be addressed and looked at."
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"I can relate to someone whose life is falling apart, and they are doing the best to get by, using humor to survive. Backstrom really wears his heart on his sleeve and his life is unraveling... I would much rather hang out with that person than a slick procedural detective who has all the answers... it's human, it's frail, it's interesting."
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