My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.'

I grew up in Baltimore. And yes, I am a big sports fan, especially when it comes to my local teams.

My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations.

There's certain things that you can do on cable that you can't do here on network TV, so then you have to think outside the box a little bit.

I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.

I was very conscious of the film industry - a lot of people, neighbors, worked in it. I actually grew up doing a bit of extra work myself. I was homeschooled, and it was a way that I could make money. My parents let us do these jobs, and I never got very far, but I was much more interested in what everybody else was doing, and I liked being on set.

Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.

I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.