Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope.

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

With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.

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.

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

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

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.