Time helps a lot. I found the fame thing really was a torment for a while. Then you learn to deal with it.

You can't live up to what people expect. Nobody can. But I guess that's my problem, not theirs.

We all present a version of ourselves whether you've got a puppet on your hand or not. To actually be very real out there in a public way, why?

I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.

I like going in to different styles of acting and exploring stuff I haven't done before.

The whole notion of politics is they always present you with this or this or this. I’ll get a newspaper to read between the lines. Why do you have to adhere to prescribed formulas that they have and people argue over them and they’re all in a box. And you watch Fox claw CNN, and CNN claw Fox. Sometimes I catch a piece of the news and it seems insanity to me. I quietly support candidates. I’m not out there banging a drum for candidates. But I have supported a candidate and it’s a whole other world.

I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger. I now boastfully say that I have a hide like a rhinoceros... and I'm smiling. It's an interesting thing.