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.

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.

Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.

I'm supposed to convince you, for two hours, that I'm somebody else. Now if you know everything about my life, if you think you've got me figured out and you think you know all my dark secrets, how am I ever going to convince you that I'm somebody else?

There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.

You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.

While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a childs imagination.