Everyone couldn't be happier and more terrified.

I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all.

Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Then you can win an Emmy and think, ha, ha, ha.

Most Republicans call the show 'The Left Wing.'

I grew up with brothers. I love men. Of course it's hard to be a woman in a man's world.

I'm afraid of flying.

I can tell when men are threatened by my height.

I can access emotions very easily.

It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.

Everyone couldn't be happier and more terrified.

One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.

Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

It's a great way to start the day, hearing you've been nominated for an Emmy. It's just thrilling.

I like people trying to do two things at once.

I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.

I am lucky enough to have Aaron Sorkin write what I have to say.

If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet.

An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.

I'd love to win Paris-Roubaix.

Square meals, not adventurous ones, are what you should seek.

Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat.

There are certain directors who will start talking to you about something, and suddenly you'll be ready to roll, and you'll realize it was very specific.

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

I often find myself writing little ditties I can imagine becoming rap songs. Not the actual rapping part, just the chorus.

Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.

One thing that is constantly on my iPod is India Arie - I like her a lot; I listen to her a lot. I think she is just a spectacular artist.

I'm open to play for anybody that would give me respect, treat me the right way, and actually going to make me feel comfortable.

I started out as a lawyer and came in laterally to Goldman Sachs. So I learned myself that life is unpredictable. That you really should, in terms of your career, try to be excellent at what you're doing. I think if you focus on your job, and you focus on being broad in the context of your job, the next jobs follow from that.

To this place and the kindness of these people I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century and I have passed from a young to an old man.

I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure.

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity

I can't get caught up in the negative because that destroys you.

Is everything funny? For me, yes. There's a positive to every negative. Even my divorce? For me, yes. If you go back and look at it, why it happened or how it happened, there's something in there that'll make you laugh.

Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.

Before a show, you might have aches or pains, or it's a bad rainy day, or it's too humid. We all complain about stuff. But... how do I put this poetically? Once it's the roar of the crowd and the smell of the greasepaint, forget it. Once the adrenaline kicks in and your chest expands, you forget about all that.

When I return to the writing process after being away from it for a while, the first part of it always is being honest with myself: What am I into right now? Is it rock bands and guitars, is it noise, is it dance beats and electronics? Is it space, is it clutter?

Over the years, things got so bad between my mother and I, we stopped talking to each other and started communicating by putting Ann Landers articles on the refrigerator.

People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them.

It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.

As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable.