When I was your age, I used to treat the crust like it was just there to hold the good stuff in. I used to leave the whole back end of it on the plate. As I got older, I learned to appreciate the crust.

So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.

My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

Making Homeland series is not improvisational comedy theater, but it is improvisation. We might get a call that morning, while we're doing something, and the change goes in that is something that just happened an hour ago, in the world.

There's something about singing that I just love. It makes me feel freer than anything in the world.