I Always Know Exactly Where My Stories

Some Of The Best Auditions I've Ever Had Have Been When My Agent Called And Said, 'they Want You 20 Minutes Ago, In An Office In Century City, To See You For Something.' I'm Not Sitting There Thinking For A Week And A Half, Before I'm Supposed To Go In Front Of A Network President To Do Something. That Just Gives You Time To Be Nervous.

A Great Deal Of My Battle, As An Actor, Is To Whittle Away The Things That Make Me Self-conscious And Try To Trick Myself Into Not Being Self-conscious. So, It's Always A Challenge, Whether I'm Lying In A Hospital Bed Or Flying Around With A Rocket Pack On My Back, Or What Have You. On The Best Of Days, It's A Challenge For Me.

I've Done My Share Of Reading About Abraham Lincoln, Throughout My Life, And He Wasn't Always Carved In Stone. He Was A Human Being. He Was A Very Thoughtful, Self-educated, Complex, Magnanimous Human Being, Who Was Very, Very Strong, Very Smart And Very Canny, With A Very Strong Sense Of What Was Right And What Was Wrong. Through All That, He's Become An Icon, Over The Years, And Some Of His Warmth And Humanity Has Been Lost. You Don't Tend To Think Of Lincoln As This Warm, Funny Person, But He Was.

A Great Deal Of My Battle, As An Actor, Is To Widdle Away The Things That Make Me Self-conscious And Try To Trick Myself Into Not Being Self-conscious.

So Many Movies Are So Formulaic Because You've Got To Get It Done In An Hour And A Half. On A Tv Series, That's Where The Really Interesting Stuff Can Happen.