Greg Bryk Quotes

I boxed through college and I played college level football. I was a linebacker.

Playing characters that speak a very violent language was my livelihood.

The difficult thing about shooting a television series is that you never have enough time. You really don't.

If you trust that the people making the show love the source material and the characters, and it's a different medium and there are different requirements for long-form storytelling that will hopefully carry over a number of seasons, then it's exciting.

You really have to be a character to serve it properly. Obviously, you're acting, but you have to have those things in yourself, whether it's the experience or the same qualities.

I just think that, at the end of the day, you needed the catharsis of revelation.

How do you fight the stagnation of monogamy and the monotony of time together?

I bake my daughter cupcakes for her school. I'm very hands-on.

I had a great mother, and I'm very comfortable with that maternal element.

I'm at a point in my life where I have three kids. I'm a father, and you start to take stock and measure yourself as a man and see where there's room for growth.

I did the David Cronenberg film, A History of Violence, with Viggo Mortensen and I played a real sociopath. For the next seven years, I played the psycho-of-the-week.

The world is a dangerous, unstable place and sometimes there are casualties and struggles for power.

The violence is the violence. I understand that we're sometimes squeamish about it, but I think that strength needs to be called on once in awhile, and sometimes that's the only thing that will work.