I certainly have played a lot of strong characters, and I love playing a strong character.

Intimidation is 99 percent in the intimidatee's head.

It was fun shooting with Josh [Holloway], not just how great he is, but just how handsome he is.

Sports and politics are basically all I really care about or talk about.

Anything government or politics is always exciting for me.

Every actor wants to do more, because you always think you can improve it.

Shia [LaBeouf] was great. He's just high energy. He's into really playing, and I had to be on my toes in a way that I wasn't necessarily expecting.

When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done.

Hugh Laurie was intimidating, but he's the greatest guy. He's so wonderful and smart and funny and serious, and he sets the bar high. So if I was scared, it's because I wasn't measuring up.

I guess actors don't like to direct each other.

It can be easy and comfortable on the set and you don't go anywhere, or it can be a stress machine and all of a sudden it's a hit.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

For you not to waste or spend your life, you must first begin to see time and life correctly.

Not a single person has died of boredom reading this book.

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.

I've always said at the beginning of every single season of the show when I was running the show in the writers' room, "This is the last season, so let's smoke 'em if we've got 'em."

Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.

There's something about political comedy that sometimes closes people off, and my general goal is to open people right up.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live.

Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... / Passion and expression are beauty itself.