01
“I heard a great thing . . . about men and women. There are gardeners and there are flowers. You can have a gardener and a flower. You can have a gardener and a gardener � might be a little boring, but they’re working hard. But if you have two flowers, nobody’s taking care of the garden. Actors have a tendency to be flowers. So nobody’s minding the garden.”

02
“At the beginning of my career I wanted to be like Steve McQueen or Clint Eastwood and went for intense roles. I did bad movie after bad movie trying to find this intense, brooding guy. When I got to play Robert Wagner, I realized he was a lesson to me because he thought he was trying to be intense but his biggest success was being light in the series Hart to Hart. So I realized I needed to unclench everything and just relax and have some fun.”

03
“Iid love to have more children. But I tell you, dating is really hard because I work all week and then weekends, I want to see my son. I mean, sometimes there’s press and stuff on the weekends that you can’t do during the week and I got to bed at around seven or eight on Sunday night. So I have Saturday night. It’s my one night. And I have four Saturdays a month. And two of those I have August. So I only have two nights to go out on a date. And usually one of those nights I want to see my friends. So its like, �What girl is going to go out one night a month with you? Who’s going to put up with that?� It was easy doing Dark Angel and going out with Jessica [Alba] because obviously we worked on the same show and we lived together and that works. But it’s hard when that ends. But I remember once I was working in Australia and Jessica was doing Honey in Toronto and she’s at the MTV Australia Video Music Awards and, you know�

04
“The character that existed on the page was very different in the beginning and even at the time Don kept saying to me, �I don�t know where this character is going.� So we worked really hard the first year to try to find DiNozzo. And boy, did we find him.”

05
“Gibbs hitting me on the back of the head was from me screwing around during filming and that was actually Mark hitting Michael, not Gibbs hitting DiNozzo. And the crew laughed and it got shown in the dailies and then it got cut into the show and then the head slap became this thing. It really was born out of frustration with my not behaving.