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.

Somebody once told me - and I could be wrong about this - that The West Wing was, on any given episode, $300,000 over, on average. Now today, if you were $10,000 over budget, they would cancel you. For sure.

When I was a teen idol, I was so goddamn pretty I wouldn't have taken myself seriously.

The media have such a strong hand in deciding what people's perceptions are. They decide what the agenda is going to be, what the issues are.

I feel like every movie is definitely the last one that I've had my moment; that I'm going to be selling autographs at malls.

Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads can do many things that even the best moms can't, and vice versa.

I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things.