Don’t ever underestimate the power of mentoring someone, or helping some young actor, doing a favor for them, or introducing - everyone needs somebody to help them along when they’re first starting out.

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

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.

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.

I think it was a subject matter that The Social Network didn't involve a lot of women. That's all I think it is.

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

It was terrifying when Aaron Sorkin announced that he was leaving West Wing, he and Tommy Schlamme. We felt like our parents were abandoning us. It was a tremendously sad day and I'm sure I will never understand exactly all the reasons why that happened.