Quotes from Tony Goldwyn

If you're playing with the best, you just rise up to that level.

I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important.

I don't do anything artificial. I don't do Botox or surgery.

My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood. But the New York theater was completely exotic and fabulous to me.

My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that

Empathy goes a long way, for sure. We cannot have healthy, loving, mutually respectful relationships without it. But we're not psychic. At least I'm not. And intuition can only take you so far, especially when a person's sense of safety, comfort, and self-worth hangs in the balance.

Every day should be #GivingTuesday when it comes to surviving natural catastrophes and man-made disasters.

I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.

We're raised to believe that asking for help - that not having all the answers - is a sign of weakness, somehow challenging our manhood.

I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?

Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.

I'm a feminist, and I am a man for choice.

Life is a very emotional experience.

I fought my way into an audition on 'Ghost.'

#GivingTuesday is the perfect cyber-counterbalance to Black Friday and emphasizes giving back in this era of mass consumption.

I have to say one of the most gratifying things about being in this industry for a long time is you do develop a genuine sense of community with the people you know and collaborate with.

We want to live in the black and white, but we don't. The world is gray. And, I'm always fascinated by people who are clearly, 'This is black and this is white, and that's the way life is.' Life always has something to say about that.

It was an incredible series, 'From The Earth To The Moon.' All of it's great.

I've been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me.

I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit.

Nothing's wrong with honest emotion.

Reproductive rights are not just a women's issue.

Our age-old faith in divine male intuition is no longer good enough. Reality check, fellas: We are not gods. We are men. Let's own it.

I love yoga breathing exercises; they're very helpful.