Quotes from Thomas Gibson

People's imaginations are sort of there for the taking, I guess. If you tell the story right, you're going to hook them.

People see me, and they think they went to college with me; there's no immediate identification.

I love 'Criminal Minds' and have put my heart and soul into it for the last 12 years. I had hoped to see it through to the end, but that won't be possible now. I would just like to say thank you to the writers, producers, actors, our amazing crew, and, most importantly, the best fans that a show could ever hope to have.

My father wasn't around much. He made mistakes, but he had a very tough road.

When I was in New York, I took my bike everywhere for transportation. I didn't have a fixed-gear bicycle, like a lot of the messengers do, but I had a stripped-down deal - having lost a few good ones in New York - and I did 10 to 15 miles a day just getting around the city.

Sitcoms are more like stage drama than anything else on film - more than a one-hour and certainly more than a movie. You get a script on Monday. You rehearse all week. And on Friday, you're on.

I am an optimist, and I try to think that the light will always prevail in any situation, so it doesn't really make me sad about humanity because I think, deep down, everybody is full of love and light.

I joke that, 'Give us forty-two minutes, and we'll get your bad guy for you.'

Single-camera is more relentless because it's eight 14-hour days no matter how you slice it.

I think it'd be a lot of fun to jump back into the comedy world.

I've been a Mac guy for 20 years. Even if I'm having trouble with the latest MacBook Pro, I'm still a Mac guy.

People are fascinated by the darker sides of human nature, and I think they're also interested in seeing the ability that a particular detective or group of detectives might have to solve the crime and put the world right again.

People always mention that they'd love to see me in a comedy again. Maybe it's time - laughter being the best medicine.

I think that people are fascinated with the stories, with human nature and the dark turns it can take.

The only way I know how to do something, as cheesy as it sounds, is to become that character, and it affects me in a not so healthy way.

The pilot is the wedding, and the series is the relationship.

If you actually saw your favorite movie star who is also a great classical actor doing 'Romeo and Juliet,' 'Macbeth' or 'Taming of the Shrew,' it would be a great thing and a great thing for kids to get interested in language.

I never was able to be a Lakers fan - I'm more of a Spurs fan.

I still want to find some place to play 'Hamlet,' and if 'Far and Away' helps me do that, that would be nice.

Unfortunately, I only have time to play 15 to 20 rounds a year. I'm a 6-handicap but can play to a 16, no problem.

By the fourth or fifth take, I had gotten over the 'Oh my God, it's a Stanley Kubrick movie' and got around to doing a little bit of acting.

There is a fine line between something that's gratuitous, that's unnecessary.

I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!

I've had probably way too many acting classes, and you try to sort of shed - I think over a period of time, you'll shed what doesn't stick with you, and you'll hang onto those things that do.