Little Christian Bale. It was one of my favorite movies as a kid, and I re-watched it not too long ago, and my jaw just hit the floor. The whole time I was like, "Who wrote this? This is unbelievable." And then the credits came up at the end and it was Tom Stoppard, my favorite playwright. It's just an amazing piece of writing.

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.

I think there's a lot of shame in American race relations. There's a lot of suppressed guilt that lashes itself out still. I see that all the time, and whereas opposed to sort of trying to address the issue in an up-front way, they're attacking and thus perpetuating the problem thinking that they're being sophisticated and post-racial, when, in fact, they're being completely regressive.

I wouldn't say I'm a political junkie. I follow it. I read a few articles every day.

I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.

Everything I've written up to now, hasn't had anything to do with my life really.