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

You can meet people who are really beautiful. Then, when you see them angry for the first time, all of a sudden they're not beautiful anymore. They didn't just step into the other room and have plastic surgery; they're still the same physically. It's just that something inside of them has changed. They're no longer attractive.

There is good and evil in each of us, and you can easily be led to the dark side.

One of my favorite books [The Stand] of all time. I grew up reading it.

I don't like to let my celebrity interfere with me living my life. I like to meet people, I like to talk to people.

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.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.