I think the challenge for me in this role is going to be, is there any heart in Negan? For me, I look at that as a challenge as an actor, and that's the kind of thing that I embrace and really look forward to.
— Jeffrey Dean Morgan
It's mostly women who I get really weird fan mail from.
A 12-year-old can watch 'Spiderman.' A 12-year-old cannot watch 'Watchmen.'
To do this movie in a watered-down fashion or have these characters be watered down wouldn't have been near as effective. It wouldn't have been staying true to what this 'Watchmen' phenomenon is.
Persistence pays off.
A family going through a divorce, a child under attack by a demon, all these things I could relate to.
There are a lot of weenie American actors, and a lot of foreign actors are having the luck.
I was almost ready to call it quits - sick of doing a job and then being back on the unemployment line and trying to make ends meet. But I loved acting and didn't know what else to do.
I didn't even know what a mark was, but I fell in love with acting.
I'm just a happy guy.
I don't think that I'm as big as Lobo is, but if you could, like, transplant Mickey Rourke's body on my head, that would be just great.
I've been dipping my toes back into TV.
Women are surprised to see me on the street - like they're seeing a ghost. There's a lot of crying involved.
I wasn't very good at it, but I knew that I loved acting immediately.
I can't say enough about Ireland. I can't. I'd move there.
My kind of success has come a little bit later in life. I'm not 20 any more and these people I've been working with have been successful and good at what they do for a long time.
Working exterior nights in Vancouver, when it's raining and snowing, is a little daunting, when you haven't slept.
I've become accustomed to playing the good guy - maybe a rough exterior, but a heart of gold in there somewhere.
I do some of my best work when I'm dead.
I think, before 'Watchmen,' I was the guy from 'Grey's Anatomy' who's a pretty good guy, a pretty charming sweet guy, and so as an actor, I really wanted to do something as far from that as I could.
Shooting all day in the rain is not where you want to be.
I've been kicking around this business for a long time.
I know that my foot is firmly wedged in the door, and I'll be damned if I pull it out, even for a second.
I feel like every day I'm exceedingly lucky.
Shonda Rhimes, especially, saw something in me that no one had and then wrote to my strengths for 'Grey's Anatomy.' That's the job I think really opened up a whole new world for me.
I am a family man at heart.
I'm easy to get along with - I'm not a diva.
I'm not one of those guys who is going to dye his beard. I'm not that vain.
The directors you want to work with are in the television world.
I want to be with people I care about and hang out with my dogs.
Alan Moore's first choice to be the Comedian... was Burt Reynolds. But I never saw myself as Burt Reynolds; I saw myself as Edward Blake.
The work I'm doing on 'Watchmen' is mind bending and physically just hard.
Sometimes in TV, it can get really stale, especially if you're doing these 23-episode years. It's a lot of work, and to put your family through that, on a location, is not always the greatest thing in the world.
There were rumors I wasn't going to die. The whole cast was sitting around the table reading the script. I fell on the floor - I'm not kidding. I looked up at Katherine Heigl, and she was crying.
It's hard to boo a puppy. You can't boo a handful of puppies.
My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.
Comedian sort of enjoys the darkness because, essentially, he's a thug. He's just not a nice guy.
You kick around long enough, and good things can happen.
Miami is not optimal for raising a child.
Not naming names, but it shocks me, some of the people who get the breaks.
I'm not trying to be an action star, and I'm not trying to be a romantic-comedy guy.
Acting is a hard profession. More than anything, it takes fortitude.
I've done tons of guest spots and in parts where the character invariably dies or is dead.
In any character you do, especially something like 'Watchmen,' if you're gonna do this, you're gonna do this right. I'm fighting for the Comedian every step of the way; there's not even a question, Adrian is a scumbag.
Turns out I'm getting old.
I like to push myself, you know.
I love acting, but the star part is not my bag.
Ian McShane's character in 'Deadwood' was awesome.
I'm learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I've been having and it's good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and see how they behave and it's why they are who they are and why they're still successful.
I just didn't want to get bored playing a character, and that's kind of the benefit of doing films; you've lived with a character for four or five months and that's it, and you walk away from that character and you feel like you told a story.
