If you are going to be on TV for however many years, you want to make sure that you have writers that are giving you something to work with, and I got that in spades.

When you put your costume on and you get your hair and your makeup done [for a role] and you stare in the mirror you feel like a different person.

If you are going to be on TV for however many years, you want to make sure that you have writers that are giving you something to work with, and I got that in spades.

If you don't believe there's some organising principle, or somebody up in the sky pulling the strings, then it can be very stressful. And nature itself is very arbitrary - it's not malevolent or benevolent; it doesn't even know we're here.

This whole notion of the acting career as a monopoly where you rise to power... it doesn't really work that way. I don't ever really feel powerful in any way. It's kind of the same thing it's always been: You just figure out what you want to do and you do it.

The stage is a routine. It keeps you grounded, like a metronome. I find that soothing.

Everything that happens on Wall Street only fortifies my opinion that there is in fact a more ludicrous industry than the entertainment industry.