It's a little weird accepting your voice coming out of an animated character. You don't buy it at first because it's your voice and none of us like our voices when we hear them recorded back.

If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet.

One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.

One of the things I love about acting is other actors, looking into their eyes, and working off them, and listening and responding to them.

Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Then you can win an Emmy and think, ha, ha, ha.

It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.

I love wasting time and learning to lip-sync to songs; it's a silly hobby of mine.

I'm afraid of flying.

It's a great way to start the day, hearing you've been nominated for an Emmy. It's just thrilling.

Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

I never stop. I don't want to stop acting because I'm afraid it'll all end, so I never say no.

Some women are just better at knowing what they want, which saves them the trouble of wasting too much time on the wrong guy.

[A mother] discovers with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth.

My unconditional sure thing is that I don't have one.

Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?

I went with an exorcist for a bit. I just want to know really practical things, like how do you hold someone possessed by the devil.

The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on every part of environmental management.

The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.

I'd want Puerto Rico to become the 51st state of America.