If we were in another country, we would stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families, for what they’re doing to this country.

I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting.

Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.

When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out.

To me, the Republican Party is the real great tragedy of the last 25 years because there are lot of good and decent people and a lot of good political points [that have] come from the Republican Party in the post-war period, but it has been hijacked by these fundamentalist wackos.

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

I never walked out the door and said, "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest Baldwin brother of them all?"