Billy Burke

I've never had a series that's gone past 12 episodes.

I started out as a musician. Although I always wanted to have a dual career, I fell into the TV and movie business more strongly and more quickly.

I started my career, actually, maybe the first 10, 11 years, playing the bad boyfriend with the gun. And I got ill with that and moved on, for some reason, to playing cops all the time.

The end of times has always been a fascination. But post 9/11, pretty much everybody will admit to having it on their minds more frequently than when they were a kid.

I was watching Burt Reynolds movies when I was a kid, going, 'That's what I want to do.'

Actually shooting a 3-D movie is not different at all than making a 2-D one. You never really notice that you're making a 3-D movie. The terminology used around the set is a little bit different, but other than that, you'd never know.

I'd rather be busy than not.

All I want out of a television show is that I be intrigued and entertained.

I can do without a television or a telephone, I think.

It's nice to be able to play a guy who gets to say all the things that you don't get to say in real life.

I'm just not a good reader, so I haven't been able to sit down and get myself through an entire book in my whole life.

No one could have predicted the cultural phenomenon 'Twilight' has become.