I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way.

I've been really lucky. I'll completely forget that I'm a celebrity. And then something will happen, and I'll go, 'Oh, right.'

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way.

We're here for such a short time. When your great-great-grandkids study history, don't you want them to be proud that you were part of the solution?

The danger of course is always is caricature. The biggest challenge was to sound like Nelson Mandela. Everything else is easy to do, walk like him. He has a few ticks and things I noticed that I picked up. I didn't have any agenda, as it were, in playing the role other than to bring it as close to reality as I possibly could.

If we listen to the better angels of our nature, there are creative and good solutions to serious problems.