At the end of your days, you will be judged by your gallop, not by your stumble.

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

You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything

John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue

Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.

I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.

I am an old, old friend of Aaron Sorkin's, who is the executive producer and writer. He had been talking about doing a political show for a long time and I had been interested in it for a long time. The moment I became available, he called me last year and asked me if I wanted to do it and then I just had to audition for the powers that be, and I got it.