Allison Janney is the best actor on the series.Allison is one of the few actors I ever worked with who is incapable of hitting a false note.

I wouldn't go back on my old days, though; everybody needs to have their wild years. It's just a question of when and I'd rather have had them early than be doing it as a mid-life crisis type thing.

Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine.

Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.

I was sick of playing high-school kids. I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.

We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.

People have a responsibility, especially with today's media, to read between the lines.

Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.

Something inexorable seeds itself in the place of your origin. You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how far you travel.

In another land there is gloryIn another land there is happinessIn another land we all get alongIn another land we will stand with others

I would be comfortable to bat anywhere.

I don't think film is the writer's medium, and so I was interested to see what a director would do with it.

The trouble with me is that every match I play against five opponents: umpire, crowd, ball boys, court, and myself.

Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.

One knows quite well that harmony can be a harmony of appearances.

Gentlemen, let's get the thing straight once and for all. The policeman isn't there to create disorder. The policeman is there to preserve disorder.

Are you moving forward, or just moving?

To form our taste, we must neither depreciate nor imitate, but we should understand and originate.