1. ‘Fringe’ was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make up this transition from being a boy or a young man into actually being a man.
2. “I think everyone thinks their family is insane, and every family is insane. There is no real normal.”
3. “Whatever kind of story you’re telling, whether it’s genre piece for a comic book or whatever it is, it has importance because it’s all a metaphor for the existence of our being.”
4. “Every morning we have a choice — forget our dreams or live them.”
5. “I think what’s so great about ‘Arrow’ is that they really ground everything in reality.”
6. “Passion is so contagious,. When you’re working on a project where people care, on every level, from the key grips to the main writer to the star of the show, you can’t help but want to jump on board and create something.”
7. “The more you spend time with a character, the more you see different nuances of that character.”
8. “To get to play a bad person and do bad things in a sae environment like ‘Arrow’ was pretty amazing.”
9. “Before my first child was born, I had nothing going on professionally really, and it’s been a very blessed period of creativity for me since he arrived. It’s very surreal. It’s almost as if the babies are out there pulling the strings somewhere, deciding what kind of life they want to be born into.”
10. “The process of creativity an life is one of death and rebirth, that’s constantly happening over and over again. Whether it’s an actual death or just a shift in perspective, that cycle is forever continuing. As an actor and person, that’s just something you have to accept.”
