Usually if a scene's really hard to write, I just don't write it. Nothing's coming to mind.

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

I still recognized for television. Buffy is 70 percent, Gilmore Girls is 30 percent, and then Mad Men. If it's a mother/daughter, it's definitely Gilmore Girls. They usually say, "We always watch it together, and we feel like we're the Gilmore girls." I've heard that like, 5,000 times.

People that work at the White House, they stay forever and love the job. Someone asked me, "Was there really a butler that was there for 40 years?" I said, "No, they're all there for 40 years."

I don't even know if people are familiar with my name as an actor. It's not as if I ever was an über-famous actor.

I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.