I think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and the road to our own happiness, our own personal contentment and fulfillment.

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

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

I think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and the road to our own happiness, our own personal contentment and fulfillment.

And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.

While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.