I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things.

The umbrella that I live under is that you must be truthful with everyone except when to do so would injure them or others.

Actually, if I had to do it over [leaving the show the West Wing], I'd do the same thing, because lost in the shuffle of it is that Aaron [Sorkin] left the same year I did. And I would not have wanted to be on The West Wing with somebody else writing it.

The media have such a strong hand in deciding what people's perceptions are. They decide what the agenda is going to be, what the issues are.

Helmut Newton shot the ad campaign [for Bad Influence]. It's [James] Spader at the top of his game, right after Sex, Lies And Videotape. It's sexy. It's weird. It's dark. The characters are great.

Every relationship has its complications.

As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets.