In the early days you have a tendency to intellectualize, but you're really just trying to sound smart and score with the chicks.

When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.

It's difficult to say no sometimes. I often hear, "They'll really take care of you," or "Someone else is going to take the role if you don't play it." Some of the best advice I ever received was to always ask myself: Am I going to kill myself if somebody else takes this role? The answer is almost always no.

I try not to lie to people - the only way to control the way you're perceived is to tell the truth.

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.

But actors with political views are a dime a dozen.

My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house.