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.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like.

I'm not here to joke around or waste time. I want to put my city and country on the map, and I won't stop until I'm at the top.

I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'

With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.