Michael C. Hall

“I certainly am drawn to roles that are darker, and I'm drawn to things that I think are more complex.”

“The most liberating thing in the world is to not give a damn.”

“When you play a character that's as established as this one is, for this long, you have to be conscious of not becoming a caricature.”

“I'm not an easy-going guy. I'm not a let-it-all-hang-out kind of guy. I'm a high-strung, chilled-out guy. I'm a control freak.”

“You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.”

“I think Dexter is a man who, a part of himself is very much frozen, or arrested in a place that is pre-memory, pre-conscious, pre-verbal.”

“I've learned to appreciate the passage of time and I think that's something that you probably can't do when you're 20.”

“I've never been a planner. I'm not a guy that says, 'In five years I'm going to be doing this.'”

“The past is a tricky thing. Sometimes it's etched in stone. And other times, it's a faded memory.”

“I feel like I've been victimized by a lot of things, and I am a victim in a lot of ways.”

“I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen.”

“I'm not a genre guy. I'm a story guy. I'm a character guy.”

“I relish the opportunity to be an actor. It's a great job. I love it.”

“I'm interested in the sense of the marathon in life. I'm not a sprinter.”

“I've been on a show, 'Six Feet Under,' where I was a gay man, and I had to do a lot of sex scenes. But it was just a part of the job.”