I think I have a pretty good ear. I mean, even just starting with, like, Austin Powers, where I did young Robert Wagner. People were, like, "How do you imitate Robert Wagner? What does he sound like? What does that even involve?".

Everybody is naughty, everybody is good.

People are human. There's such a premium today on being perfect. That's just not the way people are.

I have had a lot of blessed, interesting things happen to me and have bumped up against some amazing people.

I also listened to hours and hours and hours and hours and hours of [J.F.] Kennedy, and I sort of built [ accent]. And then I got on set [of 'J.F.Kennedy' movie ] and forgot it.But that's what you want to do. You want it to just be real. And I think authenticity was better than - people always talk about when an accent doesn't work, and the phrase you always hear is, "It was inconsistent."

Anybody who doesn't have a scandal I have no interest in meeting because they haven't lived their lives.

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.