I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun.

I keep mementos from everything I've done.

You get ideas from other people all the time.

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.

If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.

I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.

Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.

In the old patrician world there was a custom once a week you had to eat a meal with your slaves and get to know them as people.

It's important to keep auditioning. If you're auditioning for something, you're auditioning for a role that people can't see you in and you need to convince them that you're the right person.

I think you always learn something in every character you play onstage, either personally or creatively.

Matt Weiner is an amazing writer. He's one of the best, greatest writers that's ever written for television, or just written.

The biotechnology wave is similar to the information technology wave of the 1980s and 1990s.

There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.

Indeed, most magicians catch the bug as kids. My first audience was my family in Long Island. My first 'assistant' was my mother, whom I levitated on a broom in our living room.

The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.

Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is pedestrian.

Since I arrived at CNN, it has grown into one of the largest and most trusted news organizations in the world.

People can help us heal, can give us medicine, advice, many forms of help, but nobody can manage our minds for us.

Movies are a commitment. They take years of your life and they have big consequences. That's one of the bad things about movies - you're stuck with the aftermath.

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.