To have secrets and to have to live keeping those secrets from people, i've certainly had my struggles with alcoholism, drug addiction, mental health, and I know what it's like to have to put up a facade and have an external experience not match the internal experience. I felt like that was my strongest asset in trying to articulate what the guy's going through.

Eric Dane

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Any free time I have, the family comes first. by Eric Dane

Any free time I have, the family comes first.

free free-time family time

There's a very mathematical, mechanical side to architecture, and I probably lean more toward that aspect of it, though I'm terrible at numbers. But that side appeals to me more than the decorating aspect.

more me architecture numbers

Sometimes I feel like I'm lacking a playfulness. I envy guys who are consistently able to maintain a playful, optimistic perspective on things.

feel envy perspective sometimes

My skin is very sensitive. by Eric Dane

My skin is very sensitive.

skin very sensitive

The action genre is not always the most synonymous with character... by Eric Dane

The action genre is not always the most synonymous with character development.

always development action character

With a pilot, there's a lot of information that gets packed into 46 minutes or whatever it is. Usually what happens is that, throughout the season, you get to spend a little more quality time with the characters and get to know them a bit better, whether it's based on circumstance or relationships they've created with other characters.

better you quality time

I couldn't comprehend a 35-year-old woman gravitating toward a 70... by Eric Dane

I couldn't comprehend a 35-year-old woman gravitating toward a 70-year-old man.

comprehend toward woman man

Never ask a woman when she's due unless you know for a fact she's... by Eric Dane

Never ask a woman when she's due unless you know for a fact she's expecting.

woman never know you

I go eat a sandwich for lunch and have a milk shake and miss going to the gym for 10 days, and somebody snaps a picture of me on the beach, and all of a sudden, I've lost it. Why do I need to be perfect all the time?

picture me gym time

On 'Grey's Anatomy,' I didn't have to move too much. I think I ra... by Eric Dane

On 'Grey's Anatomy,' I didn't have to move too much. I think I ran through the hospital three times.

hospital think too-much three

I do like to cook. But I only cook a few things, but those few th... by Eric Dane

I do like to cook. But I only cook a few things, but those few things I do really well.

well only things like

I make really good chicken soup, sort of from scratch. I don't make my own stock. I just use a base like a chicken stock, but everything else, all the ingredients, I do on my own.

chicken good my-own soup

Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as far as films go, and I've only done a couple; film is like a definitive beginning, middle and end. You know your character's arch.

beginning you fun character

Some of the greatest actors on the planet are the most insecure people. Now I don't know if that insecurity necessarily equates to a lack of confidence. Some people are just very shy individuals. You give them a character to play and a script, and you put them in front of a camera or on a stage, and they just go.

you confidence character people

I don't know if there's any change more significant that a human being can make than that of a woman becoming a mother. There's no change more dramatic.

woman know change mother

I'm out of bed before the alarm goes off. by Eric Dane

I'm out of bed before the alarm goes off.

alarm out before bed

I'm a goal setter, but in broad strokes. I don't have a by-October-2009-I-want-to-be-here plan. All I do is work with an element of challenge and an element of enjoyment. With that, anything can happen.

plan challenge enjoyment work

Going to the gym and looking for a specific result is a short-lived existence, as opposed to going to the gym and adopting it as a lifestyle. Develop a routine, because it's much harder to break it if you have one. If you have no routine, you have nothing to break, so discipline goes out the window.

looking you gym discipline

I'm not a big watcher of myself. You start looking at things you shouldn't be looking at that have nothing to do with anything of importance.

looking start myself you

I like lifting weights. And there is a cardio element to lifting... by Eric Dane

I like lifting weights. And there is a cardio element to lifting if you're doing it the way I do it.

doing like you way