I have no idea what's coming next or where it will come from; I enjoy the surprise of it all.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.

My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.

I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.

Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.

There two other areas that are personally deeply important to me, that I hope the Homeland show can attend to in some way - one, being the refugee crisis. These are the most vulnerable people among us in the world. There are over 60 million refugees displaced by war, over 21 million that go to a third country. The numbers are climbing, and there are no legal options for these people. These are the victims of the real world's crises that the Homeland world reflects on, and almost takes a Polaroid of these days, versus a fictional tale of it.