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Sometimes I feel like I'm lacking a playfulness. I envy guys who are consistently able to maintain a playful, optimistic perspective on things.

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Envy, Like, Maintain, Lacking

There's a very mathematical, mechanical side to architecture, and I probably lean more toward that aspect of it, though I'm terrible at numbers. But that side appeals to me more than the decorating aspect.

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Very, Side, Though, Decorating

I've never seen 'Game of Thrones.' I've never seen 'Breaking Bad.' I can't tell you one character outside of Walter White.

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Game, Bad, Tell, Breaking Bad

Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as far as films go, and I've only done a couple; film is like a definitive beginning, middle and end. You know your character's arch.

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Beginning, Couple, Desirable, Definitive

I just try to leave my baggage at the door. I don't want to carry my stuff into a working environment with me, and I expect that from other people. If they can't do it, though, I'm surprisingly understanding.

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Door, Other, Baggage, Surprisingly

If I can get to the gym 3-4 days a week and spend 50 minutes to an hour and a half, irrespective of whether I lift something or not, I'm getting in shape.

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Week, Shape, Half, Hour And A Half

I grew up in Northern California on the peninsula. It was a beautiful house, but it was very traditional. It wasn't midcentury modern. I'm talking 1970s, early '80s - design didn't even go 'Wall Street' until, like, 1986.

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Talking, Very, Northern, Peninsula

Being a parent is the toughest thing I've ever done. But I'm not the kind of person to throw my kid in front of a TV. I'm the one to take out a book, puzzle, or flash cards.

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Parent, Cards, TV, Flash

I like lifting weights. And there is a cardio element to lifting if you're doing it the way I do it.

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Doing, Like, Lifting, Weights

I'm out of bed before the alarm goes off.

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Bed, Goes, Before, Alarm

I make really good chicken soup, sort of from scratch. I don't make my own stock. I just use a base like a chicken stock, but everything else, all the ingredients, I do on my own.

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Chicken, Soup, Like, Everything Else

On 'Grey's Anatomy,' I didn't have to move too much. I think I ran through the hospital three times.

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Think, Through, Move, Ran

With a pilot, there's a lot of information that gets packed into 46 minutes or whatever it is. Usually what happens is that, throughout the season, you get to spend a little more quality time with the characters and get to know them a bit better, whether it's based on circumstance or relationships they've created with other characters.

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Other, Bit, Lot, Season

I never had a family, and now I do. I know I'm a very lucky guy.

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Lucky, Never, Very, Lucky Guy

Some of the greatest actors on the planet are the most insecure people. Now I don't know if that insecurity necessarily equates to a lack of confidence. Some people are just very shy individuals. You give them a character to play and a script, and you put them in front of a camera or on a stage, and they just go.

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Play, Some, Very, Camera

The action genre is not always the most synonymous with character development.

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Character, Always, Most, Synonymous

I'm a goal setter, but in broad strokes. I don't have a by-October-2009-I-want-to-be-here plan. All I do is work with an element of challenge and an element of enjoyment. With that, anything can happen.

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Goal, Happen, Strokes, Element

Love at first sight is different when you're 32 than when you're 22. In your early 20s, you fall in love after three weeks.

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Love, Early 20s, Weeks, Early

What I love about acting is experiencing the absolute moments of - you know - of getting lost in the world you've created for yourself.

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Love, About, Created, Experiencing

Going to the gym and looking for a specific result is a short-lived existence, as opposed to going to the gym and adopting it as a lifestyle. Develop a routine, because it's much harder to break it if you have one. If you have no routine, you have nothing to break, so discipline goes out the window.

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Discipline, Existence, Out, Lifestyle

At the end of the day, you want to work with people you want to work with - regardless of what they've done. Being able to spend 15 hours on a set with somebody and enjoy every minute of it - that's what it's really about.

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Work, Hours, Set, Regardless

My father served in Vietnam - the respect I have for the Navy is profound.

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Father, Navy, Profound, Vietnam

I loved doing 'Grey's Anatomy.'

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Loved, Doing, Anatomy, Grey's Anatomy

I do like to cook. But I only cook a few things, but those few things I do really well.

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Cook, Only, Like, Few Things

I go eat a sandwich for lunch and have a milk shake and miss going to the gym for 10 days, and somebody snaps a picture of me on the beach, and all of a sudden, I've lost it. Why do I need to be perfect all the time?

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Lunch, Perfect, Shake, Sudden

Any free time I have, the family comes first.

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Family, Time, Free, Free Time

McSteamy's been really good to me. He's opened a lot of doors.

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Me, Been, Lot, Doors

I always thought of myself as a big-dog kinda guy.

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Myself, Thought, Always, Kinda

I can't say no to my girls. They melt my heart. I'm very grateful for my family.

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Grateful, Say, Very, Melt

I don't know if there's any change more significant that a human being can make than that of a woman becoming a mother. There's no change more dramatic.

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Woman, Human Being, Becoming, Dramatic

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