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.

I cotton to the idea that people are much closer to being flawed; they have problems and dont always make the right choices.

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.

If you're lucky enough to have done well, then it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.

My job is to interpret. I'm an interpreter. I can add things and bring unique qualities to the role that the writer may not have thought of, but someone else created the fundamental idea.

If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.

The control is shifting because of the democratisation of the internet. My industry is very good at building walls to stop people getting in.