People need revelation, and then they need resolution.

I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.

There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.

The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.

Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.