I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can't put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn't be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.

And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should.

Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.

I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!

Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

There's plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.