Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.

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

David Mamet, Tim Kazurinsky, and Denise DeClue, who adapted [ About Last Night]. Between the three of them... I mean, it's always down to the writing. You're only as good as your writing.

We had shot six episodes of the West Wing season when 9/11 happened. An extraordinary thing that would never happen today is Aaron going to the network and saying, "I think we need to go back and reshoot, I have something I want to do," and the network just kind of let him do it.

I literally knew nothing when I did that show ["Tony Flanagan"]. It was the first time I signed an autograph, it was the first time I got fan letters, it was the first time people screamed when I came out.

[Allison Janney] could memorize anything.She would memorize in the makeup trailer!

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