The experience with ‘The Knick’ is a singular experience. That experience taught me a lot about acting and about being on camera for extended periods of time to try to create a character arc that travels.

For me, the costume is 50% of everything. It informs posture, it informs flexibility, it informs the way you walk, it informs what the character is capable of doing, at any time.

There are a lot of reasons why marriages don’t continue.

Frugality was my side hustle. I was really good at it.

I joke that the beard does 40 percent of the job.

I think, along with the great joy and excitement of having a child, it seems to be that the common themes are also a lot of doubt and fear and uncertainty about being a parent – and about how you might not live up to those expectations.

I’ve always dressed very loudly.

Michael Rooker is like the Merle Haggard of the acting world. Never a dull moment.

I think the best part about music is that you can do it anywhere at any time and it’s always with you.

When you’re a six-foot-four, two-hundred-and-fifty-pound dude, you’re not the romantic lead.

There is a lot of things to be outraged about these days, and I think that getting outraged about an actor on a television show who may be wearing a costume that makes him larger than he is, might be low on the list.

The interesting thing about depression and anxiety is that, it’s not always wholly negative things that bring them on. Often times, those heavy swings of emotion can be brought on by just anything that is overly emotional.

I certainly like to swing the pendulum and try new things and to do things that are different from the last thing that I did.

Obey your purpose above all else.

Our hair and makeup team at ‘This Is Us’ had made me a mohawk to wear. I couldn’t apply it correctly.

We can never underestimate the emotionality of ‘This Is Us.’ Just when you think you don’t have another tear to cry, we will find a way. We will find all of your tears. We will dig down deep, and we will yank them out, whether you like it or not.

I try to make sure the projects that I choose are something that will teach me something new, either about myself or about my art.

I think there is a time in every person‘s life where they have to let their parents go and figure out what being a parent means for themselves.

We live in a time of extremes. People think that, on a scale of 1-10, if they’re not at a 10 for happy, they’re not happy.

Sylvester walked up to me and was like, ‘Mind if we get a photo?’ obviously because I was in all this crazy makeup. I was like, ‘No, Sylvester Stallone, I don’t mind if we get a photo.’

I’ve certainly gone through my fair share of anxiety and depression.

The key to a good relationship is how you repair the stress fractures.

I know people who have had near-death experiences or who have experienced terminal illness and come through the other side.

When a show starts out, you’re immediately trying to identify your goodies and baddies, and trying to place people in your mind where you think they belong.

When you’re first pregnant, you don’t want to talk about the idea that a miscarriage or premature birth is possible. The difficulties of things like that kind of get swept under the rug, and when they happen to us we are blindsided and think we are the only people going through it.