I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect.

If you're going to lead people, you better know how to manipulate people, and you have to be pretty smart to be able to do that.

Acting gives me a chance to be people I will never be, in real life. I like changing who I am.

When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day.

Actors are their own worst enemies. They quite often will get in their own way, and I have to be encouraged, endlessly, not to get in my own way.

I couldn't do the same job for 30 years. That would make me want to kill myself. Other people do it and they're very happy doing it, but for me, that's not what I want. I like changing things, all the time.

One of the great things about drama is that it makes you feel like you're not a crackpot, and that there are other people who think and feel the way you do.