Tim Daly Quotes

I will always look for things that are different from the last thing I played.

Well, I've seen a bunch of acupuncturists and one of my sister-in-laws is an herbalist. So I know a lot about alternative medicine. I don't know a lot about the practice but I know about the world.

For people like me, who have blocked out a chunk of their past, you wonder - if you open that door, if you walk into that room of your memories, what will happen? Will it destroy you or will it make you stronger?

We sort of have given up on the idea of taking any sort of personal responsibility for what we see. I don't understand it at all. There are many things that I won't let my kids watch.

I appreciate all the devices the Windows people are coming up with, but the operating system ... I just want to smash it.

I know this sounds stupid, but in some ways, the way I look is a drawback.

I grew up with actors, so I never thought of them as anything but human - sort of horribly, inextricably human.

I think I'm a lot more complicated than my looks might indicate.

It's become a cliche to think of marriage as a disaster area and a war zone.

I realized that my grandfather walked with Martin Luther King forty years ago. That was his dream. And in his little way, he helped us get closer to where we are today.

I have no illusions of being the big box office draw. But I would like to have some choices.

I love babies - I love being with them. As for acting with them, it's kind of hard because they don't know how to act.

What attracted me to it, beyond it being really intelligent, was that it was sadly something that would be unique on television. Anchoring this political show is this vital, dynamic, complex, thriving marriage. These people are passionately and fiercely committed to making it work out.

Twitter, just every once in a while I put something out there basically to promote whatever I'm doing, but I don't see any of that as representing me or who I am or being a brand.

I have a beautiful wooden Superman statue with a removable cape - I really love that piece.

I like bothering people and stirring things up.

I used to build lofts in SoHo back when there was nothing there. I had a stoop on West Broadway between Prince and Spring. My partner and I would sit there, eat dinner, and watch the world go by.

Usually when I see myself in a film or on television, there's about a six-month period where I can't look at it because all I'll see are the mistakes. I'm just appalled by the person that I see.

It's not like I walk around being Superman in real life. But when you read the script and put yourself in the position that Superman is in - I mean, he's always saving the planet, for God's sake. When you realize that, it's not difficult to take the gravitas of the situation and make your voice do what it needs to do.

I never had the desire to get in front of the camera. It never occurred to me! I always thought I'd be a theater actor.

I've always felt if my nose were more crooked, critics would focus more on my acting.

I am a member of the human race. There's a certain irony about the cyberworld. You don't know who is talking to you, if it's a machine, so I tend to try to reach out to those fellow humans.

No one's banging down my door. People see the way I look, and they don't feel threatened, but they should watch out for me. They don't know there's a steel rod that drives me. I get ticked off, and the rage just gets me going. My motor is anger.

What I've realized, and had to become comfortable with, is that I'm just, I don't think, a star. I'm an actor.

I was 9 years old, and this was - well, whenever it was, they paid a thousand bucks. I thought I was going to be rich forever! But I had no thought I would be an actor at that point.

I had so much fun on 'The Mindy Project.'

I don't think I gave 'Wings' its due. I was young. I wanted to light the world on fire.

In a war you have to take up arms and people will get killed, and I can support that kind of action by petrol bombing and bombs under cars, and probably at a later stage, the shooting of vivisectors on their doorsteps. It's a war, and there's no other way you can stop vivisectors.

The biggest compliment I can ever get as an actor is to have someone say, 'We didn't recognize you.'

I was a little bit of a slob who was sort of surrounded by dirty laundry. I can trace the exact moment that I became a tidy human being, and that moment was the day my son Sam was born.

I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.

There are two jobs. There is being an actor, and there is being a celebrity. Some people are really good at both. Some people are really good celebrities and terrible actors, and some people are really good actors and terrible celebrities. Hopefully, I am a really good actor and an OK celebrity.

Eastern medicine is not about curing your sickness. It's about keeping you well.

I never have thought of myself as a brand. I've thought of myself as an artist.