I don't like any sport where you're already exhausted when you're done putting on the equipment.

The universe works in mysterious ways and for me it worked out perfectly. With all respect to everybody else, Aaron Sorkin is and was The West Wing, full stop. There's no West Wing without him.

If somebody else is achieving more than I am, that means I can do it, too. Everybody has the ability to raise themselves up, and my life has been marked by that.

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.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don't put it on a platform. I don't campaign about it. It's just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being - my wife, Sheryl - which I was never able to do before.

You show me a perfect person and I'll show you somebody who has lived a very closed life.

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