When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are

My joke about Aaron Sorkin is that The West Wing was a great show about democracy, run by Kim Jong-Il!

I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.

Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.

We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

I can't believe George Bush might be president.