“Well, certainly at the Golden Globes, during every commercial break ev...” — Jesse Tyler Ferguson Quote

Well, certainly at the Golden Globes, during every commercial break everyone gets up and schmoozes with each other.

I kind of cheer the presence of any gay characters at all - I think the more we can saturate television with any gay character or lesbian character or transgender character, I think that's a really great thing. We're kind of getting past the fact that they're the punchline or that they're the novelty.

When you're on TV, you're looking at a half-page of material, trying to memorize it really quickly. By the time it's on TV, I've already forgotten what I said, but I can still recite my whole role from Shakespeare in the Park. It works a different set of muscles.

As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it.

I never really think so much about commercial success; I usually just think about records that move me, and 'Baby Got Back' was one that moved me.

Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.

All movies are pure process. A commercial movie isn't less process than an art movie. You can't make your decisions about a film on the basis of, 'Is it important enough? Is it serious enough?' It's either alive or it's not for me. If it's alive, I want to do it.

I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.