When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.

One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.

I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

This is unbearable how I talk.

I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.

People who go into the arts are often hurt people. Many are manic-depressive. Some have tried suicide and some have succeeded. It's just part of the game. We are people who are oversensitive. That's why we're in this business, because of our need to communicate.