Goran Višnjić

"Its mostly everyone from the show, so this feels just like being in the studio - except that we can drink here."

"When somebody is attacking your hometown, and youre just sitting in the basement, you feel really useless. I felt I had to do it to defend my country. Thats normal."

"Every time I perform, I work really hard to give part of myself to the audience. Then I do an interview and I read some story that just isnt true, or someone draws a crazy conclusion about my life, and its such a betrayal. It hasnt happened here, but in Croatia, Ive had to stop reading about myself. I dont think actors mean to be secretive - they just dont want strangers looking through their kitchen window."

"Im working with a dialect coach, but its not helping. I want everyone to understand what I am talking about, like peritoneal lavage, you know, these medical expressions... I dont want to lose my accent, I just want it to become smaller."

"I would really like to do theatre in my native language because that would be like so relaxed after ER ... English ... those medical words!"

"I dont understand the word hunk."

"All I ever wanted to do was act."

"If a great part comes up and the guys meant to have an Eastern European accent, great; but if its a bad part I wont take it."

"The first time I came here it was 10 days, then 15 days, then three months. Now this time I have to stay to April. Im slowly getting stuck here and I miss Europe."

"ER is a pretty big deal in Croatia. When my agent called and told me about this show, I said, Are we talking about the same ER? And I thought about it for half a second and then said, Yes, of course! I was watching them in Croatia when I was still at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, and now Im working with them."

"I was happy to do it when I saw the chance of helping out the local theater scene ... I am delighted to be able to help the theaters where I grew up and learned my profession. I have never forgotten my past."

"After singing stop the war in Croatia for a couple of months we realized nobody was going to give us a hand and we had to do this on our own."