Gary Cole

I was a little nervous coming in mostly because my first scene was with Martin Sheen, who I'm a huge fan of.

I gave up a long time ago trying to figure out what will happen in an acting career.

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

In Washington, there are jobs that have official titles: chief of staff, campaign manager, director of communications. Then there are all these vague and murky headings over people who are just special consultants or advisers. We really don't know what their gig is.

Office Space' I loved doing.

It seems you can ask any friend, any relative, and they'll be able to tell you about someone they know with autism.

A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.

Every actor thinks he's underused - unless he's a movie star.

For a stage actor to be there with the words and the creator of the words - it doesn't get much better than that.

You never know, when you commit to something, what else could have been. I'm so bored with that concept anymore. 'If only I didn't do this, I could have done this.' It was in front of me, they asked me to do it, and it seemed like good timing.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.