My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting director left the room and yelled at me from the hallway to keep reading.

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.

I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive.

Certainly, for me, and it's gone this way on every project I've worked on, the "writing" never ends until you're done with the movie.

The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.

My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't... It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

If you can't Smile for Yourself then Smile for Others

I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.

I don't think we [the USA] need more troops. I think we need to be less worried about civilian casualties.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.

there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.

So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are our children; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.

I do seem to have a bit of a predilection for movies that say something transgressive.