When I was young, I learned very early on that I could make my mother laugh. And that was one of the greatest sounds I ever heard.

I've been around politics a long time. I've seen it at its best and its worst, been at so many events, listened to private conversations versus public speaking, understood the game of it, and in many ways the theatrics.

I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.

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.

Its interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.

The work of John Lennon was marked by its exquisite beauty and by its brutal honesty.

I couldnt imagine something asking as much of me as House Of Cards. Its a great warm-up for coming back to the screen.