If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail.

Everything I am came from my parents. I don't take that much credit for who I am and what I am.

My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.

I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.

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.

I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.

I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.