Jeffrey Dean Morgan quotes:

I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning.

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.

Working exterior nights in Vancouver, when it's raining and snowing, is a little daunting, when you haven't slept.

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.

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.

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

The last decade has been a little rough, so I'm hoping to start this one on the right foot.

Certainly I think being an absentee farther helps in adding a layer of conflict.

I'm not a fan of horror. I don't think a proper horror movie has been done since The Shining.

I can't say enough about Ireland. I can't. I'd move there.

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.

The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play.

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.

I love playing a villain. I think that there's something freeing about that, and it's a different kind of challenge. More than anything, for me as an actor, it's about challenging myself and doing as many different things as I can.

More and more of our finest actors are finding room for themselves in the world of television - but I truly believe it's because some of the best stories are being told there.

There's no man, alive or dead, who's going to fault you for living.

I've been involved in lots of comic book stuff; I've done numerous films based on comic books and TV shows.

I kind of like the ping-pong coach aspect; it somehow fits, and I don't know how.

If you look at my résumé, I've more often than not played a very solid, decent human being.

I don't know that I feel comfortable playing a villain; as a matter of fact I probably don't feel comfortable, which is why I like it so much. It's just an opportunity to try something different.

As a matter of fact - it'll probably ruin my movie career - but I think better storytellers are in television.

I think, as Ive 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.

The work I'm doing on 'Watchmen' is mind bending and physically just hard.