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" When I was 16, I'd ping pong between AC/DC and Barry Manilow without any sense of irony. "

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" This 'historical record' will exist, flawed as it is, in hundreds of years. What will that tell the future? How accurate are we reporting our lives? "

" There was a time when history was written by a few people, the winners. Now, history is written by all of us all the time... That's the thing we keep telling our 14-year-olds, you know: anything you do right now, it's not going anywhere. "

" You're damned in success a little bit. "

" I do love the stage, and that is incredibly rewarding. "

" I love everybody at TNT, and they were totally behind 'Trust Me.' I totally loved that show. I feel like it should have had more life. "

" I have to challenge the audience. "

" I always get a little uppity when I hear the phrase 'TV actor.' It's like saying you're a magazine reporter. I was in the theater for ten years before I ever had a TV audition. "

" That's an amazing feeling, to walk onstage, and you're not thinking about anything, you're not thinking about your lines or what you're supposed to do - your body, your brain knows, so there's freedom. There's not fear, there's not nerves. "

" As I got older, I realized that my life experience, what I really had, was always going to be more valuable than what I pretended to have. "

" Putting my head on Ruth Buzzi's body - it's upsetting. "

" I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays. "

" I think it's about finding the character you want to play and the people you want to work with. "

" I think there's a certain objectivity that comes from being Canadian. You're partly British and partly American; you have a good bird's-eye view of both countries. So much of the comedy that comes out of Canada is impersonation - it's less 'look at me' than it is 'look at me playing other people.' "

" I think we all realize that anyone can - and has - gotten AIDS. So there's obviously still a lot to be done. "

" It's very, very hard to create something that is big these days because you have niche markets - and, you don't necessarily need to be big; the show is specifically created for a small group of people. You know, if it's on the USA network, well, then a small group of people is fine. "

" I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I died, that the world might be an OK place without my Hamlet, in fact. "

" I'm not sure sometimes if it was because Will was gay or it was a sitcom. But that combination does make it hard to become the new lead on the 'Sopranos.' "

" My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins. "

" Each one of us fulfills a piece of a larger puzzle. "

" It's hard in this business to get the opportunities to show off range. "

" If you can last long enough, in success, you have to get really creative and come up with new stuff. "

" I feel like 'Travelers' is something I can legitimately say, 'You're going to love this.' I think then people will accept me as a different thing. And if they don't, it's fun trying. "

" That's the hard part of television: When you walk into the network tests, you're signing away seven years of your life. "

" You can write your own history. "

" Probably one of the most surreal moments of my career was acting in front of Notre Dame with a mime. "

" We see people talking to themselves all the time. We always have. Particularly if they're homeless people or at all questionable, there's a sense of, 'That guy's crazy!' I see that now with a much more empathetic eye. "

" My first job was at Baskin-Robbins. I made store manager at 16. "

" On Netflix and other streaming services, they're taking risks that are based on 'Come with us! Come with us!' and the audience does. "

" Tom Cavanagh is fantastic. "