It was tough doing 'Underneath the Lintel' in New Jersey in the wintertime, but rewarding. Those audiences were lively and interactive. On-stage was ….

I turned down a lot of things - some very lucrative - because I could afford to at that time. That didn't lead to a happy place. I was happy to spend….

I was happy to spend time with my family, get to know my daughter, who was born during The West Wing. I missed her first words. I missed her first st….

I love David Fincher - even though it was just two scenes, I loved the way we worked and could tell by the way he was shooting it that this was going….

Every role is challenging in its own way, but the most challenging roles are the ones that are badly written - then it's completely up to you to come….

Surviving the grind of 18-hour days and getting up at four in the morning to work out for an hour so I'd have the energy to do it again the next day.….

I would love to be in the position where the role is challenging enough that I need three months to prepare for it and then six months to live the li….

I've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted..

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 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….

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….

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

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….

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..

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….

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….

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

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….

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