Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.

I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.

I don't have any conscious memory of wanting to be an actor, but early on, there was something in my makeup that I felt comfortable with. Then when I was around five or six, I started going to the movies and gradually it dawned on me that I was like one of those people on the screen. And that was it. There was never any question or doubt about what I was going to do for a living.

I love The West Wing for many reasons. The show has been a fantasy. But we have offered a parallel universe to reality.

George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if youll pardon the expression.

Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.

I was the last one to join the cast of the west Wing and when I started it was just a peripheral character - the focus was to be on the staff, not the First Family. When I did the pilot, my contract was for just three years and it was confined to maybe three or four episodes every season. The only restraint I had was that I could not play another President while the show was on the air. So, I kind of backed into one of the great events of my life and certainly my career.