Quotes from Ryan Eggold

One summer, my friend and I went to summer camp, and I acted in some plays there, and I fell in love with it.

I never have cash on me.

It's a luxurious complaint to have as an actor, but playing the same character for many years can become routine.

People really give you a hard time when you wear fake glasses out to a bar.

I'm just a guy who wears TOMS. It's the sad truth.

Making music and writing kind of come from the same creative place.

Never stop taking risks. Just keep reaching.

Mick Jagger was a lightning bolt of strange talent sent from above.

I play the guitar and the piano and have a group of guys who I play with. They're uber talented.

When I'm on a second date with a girl, I'll ask myself, 'Can I marry this person?' And we're just trying to decide between salmon and chicken.

I think all of us could play the teacher because we all grew up with teachers. It's just kind of this peeking-over-the-shoulder presence that we've all grown up knowing.

Marriage, for whatever reason, has always both interested and terrified me.

You have to figure out 'who am I?' 'What do I want to do?' 'What do I want to say?'

I wore glasses my whole life, but then I got Lasik eyeball surgery, and I fixed that.

I think I'll always prefer theater to working in front of the camera. It seems a more distilled form of the craft.

I have read a thousand screenplays, and I have acted in a handful of them, and I have felt when it feels good, the writing, and it feels natural, and feels funny or sad or honest or whatever it may be. You connect. And I felt when it feels like writing, when it feels stale, or when it feels artificial or forced, or too theatrical or whatever.

In terms of directing, there's a number of directors who definitely had a great impact on me, Woody Allen certainly being one of them.

So many limits in Catholic high school! I'm not a bad Catholic, but everything was off-limits.

I have numerous clear glasses at home. I probably have thirty pairs. I think it started for acting. I have tons of clothes that just sit there. But if that one role comes up, I'm going to want that shirt. And I have glasses for that, too.

I love all my fam. I have quite possibly the best dad, mom, and sister in the world.

I put a song out for fun, from 'Lucky Them'... I wrote another one called 'Love Song.' I really liked that.

I've been on a lot of sets, and I've been around a lot of directors, and I've been working for many years now, but stepping in the shoes of being the decision maker and the guy that everybody is relying on at some point, yeah, it was challenging for sure. One thing is that you're responsible for a large group of people.

People-watching in New York while listening to Bach is kind of amazing.

Smoking is gross.