Quotes from George Eads

I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death.

The show has boundaries right now we're trying to widen them not break them.

I have a Lab, it's fun to hang out and hike with the dog, people come up to him, and pet him, it's fun.

I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard.

To get to wear the costume of Evel Knievel, are you kidding me? When I was a kid, I had Superman. I had Spiderman. I had Evel Knievel.

It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too.

If I get a free moment, I want to get outside, play golf, go fishin'.

I love action. I love stage combat.

I think people would be suprised at how much we curse when we screw up. I'm like somebody with Tourette's Syndrome.

I think we take for granted police officers and detectives that walk into some pretty heinous situations, and they really have to be very brave. So I love playing a character that's very brave - someone that kind of dives in the fire to figure out what's happened.

We give each other a hard time, but no pranks.

Whenever I didn't have a job, I studied acting, I sent out tapes, went on auditions.

I feel like I have a lot of dedication to the acting profession.

With every passing week, I get an opportunity to improve my acting because I get to do it day in, day out. So a lot of times, I compare it to being a professional athlete.

I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game.

I grew up in a pretty small town in Texas, population 8,000, and we had a lot of open spaces.

'CSI' was a little cutting-edge at the time because it made TV look like movies. It was shot in that Jerry Bruckheimer style with dolly shots, putting the camera on rails so stylistically, it looked aesthetically more like a film.

Sleep is the gasoline that keeps me going.

Any time you put a cast like this in compromising circumstances or shake it up a little bit, I think we're all pretty close so we draw on real emotion.

Over the years, I've gotten a little bit thick-skinned when it comes to the acting thing.

I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

Really, the measure of a man is when they're tired and exhausted.

Another challenge? Getting up at 6:30 in the morning to go act. It's not fun acting that early in the morning or acting at 4 A.M in the middle of the night or in the morning when you're really tired. That's a challenge. What a luxurious problem to have.

To be honest with you, I get a little fed up with actors who act crazy to make themselves more interesting.