I've done quite a lot of dying on shows and in movies. To have a good death scene though - come on, it's brilliant. I love a good death scene!

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.

You will never know who you truly are until you can find a quiet place to sit and think. A place where you can get lost in hopes of finding yourself

Never make someone a priority when they only see you as an option.

I was born to other things.

I know amazing people in fashion who are anything but fake. They are very real and very sensitive. They are happy and sad. They are loyal friends.

Have confidence. Return. Invoke our Lady and you'll be faithful.

I believe we are the only sentient beings in the universe, and I believe that 500 years from now, we will still be the only sentient beings around.

I don't really think about doing something kind, I think there's just a way to conduct your daily life with compassion to other people.

When you reflect on Sept. 11 and the tragedy of that day, one of the things that came out of that was the goodness of humanity

If we control the ball, they pay.

I think there's always a role for Congress under every instance in every administration to conduct oversight of the executive branch.