Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.

I'm rather uncomfortable with celebrity, to be honest.

I want to go working with good people on something that's good, because otherwise it's a big waste of time. I don't have that much time.

You're talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. Dating is not really something familiar. I've never really been a dater.

Oh, my only – if I had one frustration in being on “West Wing” is I wasn’t on it enough, because I was in and out.

When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.

I hope that the American public understands that we have three levels of government. We have the (unintelligible) the executive, but there's legislative and the judicial, and the legislative obviously need to be just doing their job.