I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series.

What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality.

I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.

I don't play polo anymore because I am too old. But we still have a half a dozen horses - a couple of young horses we are teaching how to play polo and older horses that are real trustworthy when you get them up in the mountains.

I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series.