After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of undiscovered talent.

I think that when you put yourself, as actors have to do, in other people's shoes, when you have to put on the costume that someone else has worn in their life, it gets much, much harder to be prejudiced against them and even to be - to not try to look at the world in a sense of "I'm not going to judge somebody. I'm going to try to understand who they are and what they're about."

The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.

Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to.

I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs.

Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.