If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.

If you're not moving forward, you're falling back.

We're paid to care. That's what actors get their money for. But the main goal is not for the actors to be frustrated at the end of the show, but for the audience to be throwing their shoes at the television set. That's what we're trying for.

I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.

The bad guys dont always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.

If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.