Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.

Its a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.

Essentially, your voice is an instrument; its a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it.

I think people love it when anybody acts bad; its not particular to me.

I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.

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.

I often make the analogy with tennis. Every match the rules are the same, but no game is ever the same. Theatre is like that. Every time is different.