I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.

Listen! We're not just doing this for the money! We're doing this for a S*** LOAD of money!

I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

Playing the president is interesting because, unlike a lot of different roles, people pay so close attention to who the president is, all of them, everybody's got an opinion about the president.

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.