I'd like to thank the academy and I'd like to thank my mother and I'd like to thank my mother again, because I forgot to thank her last year. - James Spader

I enjoy the most that Alan seems to be the happiest the stranger that it can be. I don't think it ever can be strange enough for him.

The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism in them, … I think (Alan Shore) intends to do the right thing, but his view of the world is very different so, to get to the right place, he sometimes takes a path that goes through a very dark forest.

Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe.