Alexis Denisof Quotes

[David Boreanaz]'s got a very, very cute little giggle.

Honestly, one-hour drama is the hardest format there is. I think it's harder than movies, and it's harder than half-hour comedy.

You learn a lot about a person when you work together.

Personally, my taste is towards development of a character, as well as the resolution of a story plot. I like to find both, if I can.

Shakespeare is the Joss Whedon of his generation.

In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him.

I've got nothing against big-budget values. I mean, I was very proud of 'The Avengers,' the part that I played in it, albeit a small one. It was thrilling to be part of it. But it's so huge that you can never really wrap your mind around it.

The inherent corruption of man can often bring down the best system.

I think we're all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most mysterious of the physical sciences is neurological science.

By the time I had finished my studies at St. Paul's School, I knew I wanted to be an actor.

Life is not just one dark moment after another.

You give up a lot when you enter the years of parenting. It's a sacrifice.

That's an important lesson for me, to not qualify my experience against somebody else's. My experience is the experience that I wanted to have, and have created for myself, but it doesn't make me any more deserving than anybody else - or less.

My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants in New York in the early '20s. My mother's family came over from Ireland generations ago.

I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director and the script.

There's nothing as satisfying, thrilling and gratifying as parenthood.

Anybody who believes and experiences their life and doesn't have shades of gray in it doesn't live where I live and is simply not in touch with the reality of the human condition.