The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.

Mark Twain was an artist working at the highest level. He wrote a book, his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that put America on the world stage for literature. It's almost as if, if you start reading that book as a racist, you cannot finish it and still be a racist.

I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.

If you play Mark Twain and he's not funny, you are definitely not playing Mark Twain. That was the biggest challenge, in some ways. Writing and performing jokes that can come out of that brilliant delivery system he constructed: the friendly, avuncular truth-teller.

It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.

I'm a better person when I'm preparing for a role, when I'm studying a role.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.