If you wanna compete, youve got to get into the original content game.

Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.

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

I never doubted at all. If you ever doubt then you are in trouble. I never thought: 'I should do this or that in case I don't make it.' I never had a back-up plan.

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.

Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.

I was terrible in my first play. After that experience, I had to face that I wasnt good enough to play with the big boys. I had to go away and learn, so I worked in regional theater for three years. I even understudied at the Kennedy Center.