Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.

I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick.

That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone.

I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.

I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political climate.

Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons I guess I became an actor - because you get to create a persona that's bigger or better or more interesting than your own.