The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.
“Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain is, that's going on under the lines. It doesn't matter whether you're speaking or not speaking because your mind is working the way your character's mind would work.”
“I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.”