I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?

The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?

Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.

You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.

You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.

Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.