It's very rare to have rehearsal time on a television show: You get scripts, you show up, and you do it.

A lot of times, you feel like you're walking on eggshells in a creative environment, because everyone's having to watch out for egos so much of the time.

The only bipartisan place in D.C. is Brooks Brothers.

I always admire people who do commercials because they have to put together a beginning, a middle, and an end in 30 seconds.

There are things that can only be said with a good string of cussing. I'm definitely fond of a few choice words. They say things that nothing else can say. Gotta love it.

My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path.

If a D.C. event doesn't have crab cakes, it's low-rent and you need to flee.

I've had the opportunity to do a wide range of stuff, a lot of different characters and they've all had their own kind of thing.

...what she had been waiting to see on someone else's face was not empathy but the companionship of unmitigated suffering...

It was enough just to sit there without words.

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.

The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.

I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.

I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.

I mean, it's not important what kind of pants you wear; it's how you wear them.

Some things just won’t go away, no matter how hard you scrub.

To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.