You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.

I can barely even run a computer. God knows what I'd get on online dating. I'd get something that was subhuman or something.

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.

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

My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.

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.

I hate parties. I really don't like public events. I hate dressing up. I am the worst celebrity ever!