Quotes

I think, as I've gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do.

I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.

[from his 1997 "Playgirl" magazine interview, on whether he wants to get married someday] Yes, I do. But I don't have any immediate plans because I know I wasn't good at it the first time around.

[in his "TV Tattler" interview, regarding the relationship with his television sons Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles] On set, we're like three idiot brothers.

[about coming back to Supernatural (2005)] "I'm going to call Eric [series creator Eric Kripke] and beg for my life and find a way to come back and harass these guys [Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki] in some way.

I love Jared and Jensen. Going up to Vancouver is like going to camp. We have so much fun, and it's pretty much just the three of us up there. There's a lot of giggling. The three of us together act like little kids. They're both fun as heck, but they're both so different. Supernatural is the most difficult because I could never get used to working nights. Working exterior nights in Vancouver, when it's raining and snowing, is a little daunting, when you haven't slept. The show is extremely hard, physically. - on working with Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles on Supernatural (2005).

[Told Flaunt Magazine in March 2010 that he currently abides by these steadfast rules] We don't tattoo someone's name on our body and we don't get married.

[on his role as the Xindi-Reptilian Damron in Carpenter Street (2003)] I had to pay my bills. I knew I'd play some guy saying some stuff. Then I got a call saying I needed to go in for a prosthetic fitting. I remember them dripping goop on my face, and I had straws sticking out of my nose. I couldn't eat lunch. I was claustrophobic. I'd go home in tears. This was the job that made me want to quit acting.

[2019] She [his daughter George] already steals my cokes. Pepsi not allowed near our house.

[twitter post featuring a picture of various soda bottles in his hotel room refrigerator, with several Pepsi Max bottles and at least one regular Pepsi bottle visible] Well, this could be it for me and Sweden. Been real nice until I opened fridge looking for my Coca Cola.

[Fan on Twitter: Do you have any phobias or something like that?] Spiders and dumb questions.

[after he mentions losing another of his ducks to the farm fox on Twitter, a fan asks if it was "old enough"] ? Old enough? For what? To be eaten? I guess so... according to the fox anyway. Pretty sure he didn't card him.