ON HIS UNUSUAL OFFERS: “I get some of the craziest offers you could imagine. I’m not in that Matt Damon stratosphere where I’m turning down playing the starting pitcher for the Yankees. I turn down playing the giant tomato in The Avocado Jungle of Death.”

ON ACTING: “I feel incredibly lucky to have such a great job, but if someone knocked on my door tomorrow and said, ‘You’re never going to act again,’ I’d be totally fine. I’d find something else to do in sports or with animals. If I won $15 million in the lottery, I’d never act again a day in my life. Alias was a great experience, but after season three, when you’re working 16 hours in San Pedro at night, it’s like, I wouldn’t mind working at Kinko’s from nine to five next week.”

ON GIVING UP HIS ONLINE-POKER HABIT: “Sometimes, you do things and you feel like there’s this invisible camera, where you’re watching yourself act like a complete idiot. That happened about six months ago. It was a Monday morning at 2:30, and I’d just gotten knocked out of this [poker] tournament. I was yelling at my computer screen at the top of my lungs, and I had that out-of-body experience. I was like, ‘My God, man, what are you doing?’ “

ON HOCKEY: “Hockey is the greatest sport, hands down -- the speed of the game, the violence, the excitement, the pageantry of putting on all that equipment like a gladiator going to war. They’re just meat-and-potato kind of guys. They’re all polite, they’re all humble, and they all come from small towns in Canada. With them, you never hear about all the craziness like in the rest of the sports world.”