“Because what I say from that podium has got to be accurate, and I'm the only one who's going to be held liable if it's not accurate.”

“Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.”