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" The term 'celebrity memoir' has gotten such a bad name now, but there used to be a little bit of an art form to it. "

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" In comedy you have to be willing to not take yourself seriously, you know? I take comedy really seriously, and so to take comedy seriously, you must not, you cannot, ever take yourself seriously. "

" My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't very good at sports. "

" I have had a lot of blessed, interesting things happen to me and have bumped up against some amazing people. "

" I try to be authentically who I am. "

" I've always been involved in politics, since I was 8 or 9 years old. I sold Kool-Aid for McGovern - I could always pick a winner. "

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

" The minute you start making calculations about what people will think of you as a person based on your work as an actor, you're on the road to becoming a bad one. "

" I - you know, I loved politics more as a younger man. "

" Matthew Lowe is one of the great water men that I know. He's a surfer, a great water polo player. I think he's half fish. "

" I'm not unashamed to say that I like movies that make me verklempt. "

" I like the nexus of Bollywood and Hollywood. I'm actually shocked that there isn't more of a meld between our two industries. "

" Things that I consider bad qualities, I always try and figure out where they are coming from. I don't consider ambition to be a bad one. It's served me very well in my life. Very well. "

" When I started on 'The West Wing,' that was at a time when this was still a stigma, because movie stars didn't do TV. Now, every movie star is desperate to find their 'True Detective.' "

" Getting married isn't going to make your relationship better. It's just a ceremony. "

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" Guys are really lucky. We become our authentic selves the older we get. "

" When I got sober, that was 1990. "

" Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He's a lawyer, my father's a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one. On so many levels the role just felt right. I fell in love with it as I would a woman. "

" What's gratifying about West Wing is that everybody told us that it couldn't be done - that the man or woman on the street didn't care about politics. But if you set things up correctly, people don't have a problem with it. "

" Let me just say this - sometimes being a trailblazer is highly overrated. "

" Individuals usually do a better job than the government. "

" The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma. "

" If you are worried about what people think of you, you should go into politics. Real actors take chances. "

" In acting, there's a type of courage you're recognized for all the time. You lose 100 pounds and play a guy with AIDS, and you get rewarded. But, in life, doing what is courageous is quiet, and no one knows about it. Courage is someone making sacrifices for their family or making selfless decisions for what they hope or feel. "

" I've said before that the common perception that all good actors should be good liars is exactly the opposite; only bad actors lie when they act. "

" I'm a true centrist: my beliefs put me in the middle... You know what happens to people who drive in the middle of the road? They get run over. "

" I don't flip. I don't even dive into a pool - straight cannonball for me. No, thanks. "

" My dad is an attorney. I've always been interested in it. My sons are probably going to law school. "

" I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures. "

" I'm a sportsman, you know, and I shoot skeet, and I grew up in the Midwest, so that's a part of my culture. "

" To go from playing Jack Startz in 'Behind the Candelabra' to playing JFK in the same year, I have now operated at the far ends of my range as an actor. "