There is a peak and valley to careers and that includes fame. If you are lucky to ride this wave of fame to a plateau - it won't last there. I guess ….

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't..

I look like everyone else..

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from..

I was just infused with ideas and I would dream about it and wake up and go, "Oh, I have another idea about Walter White." It was so well written. An….

What's great about well-written material is, if you can shock with justifiable actions, that's the best..

I don't even think about the money when I consider roles, I turn it over to my agency. Money will come. I respect it but I don't thirst for it. I wis….

Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck ….

What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's basically….

I realized, "Oh my god, this is an enormous play. And it's almost all me. Big. big chunks of speeches, speeches, speeches." And I started to panic..

I didn't feel entitled to become a star. I didn't expect it..

When you play a non-fiction character it is more responsibility than when you are playing a fiction character because that person lived, and you do w….

I enjoy storytelling. I like to write it, I like to direct it, I like to act in it, I like to produce it. I like to be around storytellers. That's wh….

Mixing humor and politics is something that works..

When actors first come up, you're auditioning for everything - you're trying to sniff it out like a pig with a truffle and you would do anything!.

When I was a kid there were a very select few channels - programmes had to have more of a large appeal and they just didn't offer very much. Now you ….

Gay and lesbian couples should have the right to experience the joys of marriage and family..

Something's happened in our society which I don't think is beneficial, and that's that you see the public being fed box-office news. Newscasts now, e….

What used to frustrate me going into an audition was that some inexperienced, lesser casting people would think that actors are acting only when they….

I think, and I mean this sincerely, I was raised humbly. We were a lower middle income family and a household that was scrimping by at times. We were….

This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners..