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 can't judge the characters I play, because it's for the audience to do. What I can try to do is to understand and embody what were they going through? How did they make the decisions they made? That to me is a more interesting way to approach something, rather than saying this person is a villain and that person is this and - because it's not very interesting to play that anyway.

I dont play villainy. I wouldnt even know how to play it.

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.

My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the men's room so I can jerk off while I fantasize about a life that doesn't so closely resemble Hell.

Politics and acting are very closely tied. The job is to convince.

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.