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"The criteria, for me, is movie star. It's Hollywood. Not Somalia."

"Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood."

"The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we've lost something, and we don't know how to get it back."

"If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?"

"All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely."

"I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening."

"I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows."
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"Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you."

"The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?"

"We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story."

"One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential."

"John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue."

"With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in."

"I grew up in a family where the internalized understanding was that the kids were going to grow up into a better world. I worry, because I don't think my kids are going to have that. The world is very scary. The world would be scary without the choices the current administration made, but they just exacerbated it. And it ticks me off. I want my kids to have a good life."

"Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth."
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