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.

The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.

To know what you want, to understand why you're doing it, to dedicate every breath in your body to achieve... If you feel you have something to give, if you feel that your particular talent is worth developing, is worth caring for then there's nothing you can`t achieve.

I've been intrigued by politics my whole life. And, yes, I am very close to the Clintons. I was a Hillary person until I was an Obama person. And she was a Hillary person, too, until she was an Obama one, evidently.

People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want.

I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck.

Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.