"My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins."

"I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through."

"Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, 'Hey, come see my play,' he'd say, 'Sure.' He'd see one, 'Oh, good play' - you know, very typical dad reaction."

"At home in L.A., Sunday is lazy. It's the wife and me lying in bed with coffee, watching 'The Soup' or something funny on TiVo. The kid will occasionally join us. Eventually, breakfast is at a place down the street called Paty's. And we always have some kind of great dinner - my wife makes a great roast beef."

"Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country."

"We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways."

"You get the information, and it's not your job to judge it or not judge it. You adapt, and you do it. That's what we do as actors. We're just as surprised as the viewers, sometimes."

"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight."