Sam Seaborn is the best character that's ever been written for me, certainly. By far. And it's a timeless show [The West Wing], one that's having another resurgence now, with people so in an uproar politically.

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 should be allowed to do whatever they want in the privacy of their own home or their own hotel room.

Conventions are, by nature, a party. I mean, that's why people become delegates. They come from all over the world to exercise their democratic rights and to party.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.

There's this unbelievable bias and prejudice against quote-unquote good-looking people, that they can't be in pain or they can't have rough lives or be deep or interesting.