Robert Knepper Quotes

'Ray Donovan' was all fiction and pure fun, to be working with such greats as Liev Schreiber and Jon Voight. My character was recurring, but my storyline was intricate to the whole thing. With the character that I played, I got to go through all aspects of my instrument. I got to bring it to tears and to laughter.

'Justified' had such dead-on beautiful scripts that you didn't want to mess with it.

But I've never tried writing an episode of 'EastEnders', even as an exercise.

I signed up for 'Brothers & Sisters' because I think it's a really great show. I like my character, and I'm really interested in what he has to do every day - and this cast is so spectacular. I really wanted to work with this particular group of people.

Still, on 'Friends', we had some guest-stars who were less than spectacular, not the stunt-casting, but just regular guest-stars, and they weren't particularly great actors, but the material was so good that they scored. It's the writing.

One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.

Writing for a soap - writing for 25 characters day in, day out - is one of the most difficult jobs in Hollywood.

When you're in something like 'Game of Thrones' and get the chance to play a part like Bronn, with that cast and with Peter Dinklage, it's wonderful.

Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.

I'm really 100 per cent invested in 'Suburgatory' right now - I'm really focused on that and really like taking it all in. It's so much fun and I just love this character and I love the guys I work with so I'm just enjoying this right now.

I judge movies on how much fun I had while I was doing them. I had a great time on 'The Right Stuff.' Doing that was fantastic. And there was the year I did 'The Rookie' and 'Far From Heaven,' which was amazing because those two different roles were just so far apart.

Luckily, I had that experience on 'Homeland,' to work with these unreal people who are unbelievably talented, great actors.

If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.

I enjoyed the drama of 'One Tree Hill,' and the opportunity to be one of the comedic aspects, initially.

I played in 'From the Earth to the Moon,' working with Tom Hanks. He is a great guy, very smart.

I never had a great role in a great film.

I didn't even watch the soaps when I was in them because it's like a coal miner coming home and staring at the coal scuttle - I was never a great lover of watching myself act.

I loved working on '90210,' and I liked playing Ozzy because he was different from everybody else. And it was great because I got a great fan base.

Dialogue is something I don't get a lot of on 'Game of Thrones.'

I probably have more words to say in 'Mr. Robot' than I've had in my entire career put together.

I loved doing 'Homeland.' I loved playing Brody.

I wrote for 'The Sopranos' and worked on big, blustery characters for quite a while.

I went to journalism school, so sometimes writing the script of 'Being Mary Jane' is me putting my journalism hat on.

I had a role in 'DodgeBall,' where I played a pirate who played dodge ball. I'd say 80 to 90 percent of my lines were 'Garrr' or 'Arghh.' And it was all about what the quality of your 'Grr-arr' was.

'End of Watch' was 98-percent written, and I work really hard to make it look like it's the first time I'm saying it.