['John F. Kennedy] movie is based on a massive best-selling book, which is always helpful. And then the script was amazing and answered my question, "Why this? Why now?" And the "why now" is that it's 50 years since the assassination, and the country needs to have and will have a conversation about that. And the "why this" is the construct, which I think is sort of ingenious.

Anything that is stifled will eventually ferment or explode.

I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

People have a responsibility, especially with today's media, to read between the lines.

I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the conventional wisdom would be ‘actors are terrible liars,’ because only bad actors lie on the job. The good ones hate fakery and avoid manufactured emotion at all costs. Any script is enough of a lie anyway. (What experience does any actor have with flying a spacecraft? Killing someone?) What’s called for, what actors are hired for, is to bring reality to the arbitrary.

Anyone who's lived their life to the fullest extent has a scandal buried somewhere.

Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.