It seems not to matter that we are at the brink of a war that may spread beyond Afghanistan and Iraq to Iran and Georgia and then where? To Syria? To….

My parents grew up in the Depression. Despite the success that they both had in their lives, there's a certain mentality that tells you to finish all….

I go in to Warner Brothers to test and in the waiting area I saw Allison Janney sitting there, who I did not know but I was a big fan of. I said to m….

I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know I'm doing….

I love my wife but sometimes not so much. Frustration and fights can muck up a good thing. And just when a thing can move past differences and into t….

I have to admit I've rarely been happier in my life. I have been absolutely thrilled to be back in New York and living a block from where I grew up. ….

Playing a TV character for seven years is almost like when you do a play. You live, breathe, and everything else with that character 24-7 for six mon….

I mean everyone, from Al Pacino to Murphy Guyer, are phenomenal actors..

I had been used to improvising and even in the audition I was feeling free to rearrange Aaron Sorkin words a little bit, as lovely as they were. I di….

Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off..

Most actors, unless they're big movie stars and can carve out huge chunks of time to focus on one movie that takes six months - the rest of us have t….

I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events o….

We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find….

Things happen to us and reaction is sometimes tough to measure..

I am one of the lucky ones; believe me, I haven't forgotten that..

I didn't expect NBC would be at all thrilled about me, because the year before the West Wing I had rejected a pilot at the last minute and got them v….

I imagine an America that can actually change. That we become a nation that prospers again but without pillaging the resources of nations that make t….

I fell in love with my wife twenty years ago. I am only now, it seems, getting it through my very thick skull how lucky I am..

The political nonsense of network television and the culture of a set and all the problems that that can create, I can take. I can't take betraying t….

My favourite British spots are any of the beautiful parks, especially on a sunny day such as this, after a long stretch of cold, cloudy and rainy day….

You had actors that came from live theatre and it felt like you're doing a play. Every time we did a three or four minute walk-and-talk in the West W….