My Recovery Is The Single Greatest Accomplishment

And There Are So Many People In The Third World Suffering So Horribly Right Now, And We Are So Focused On Ourselves And Our Culture That A Lot Of Things Are Showing Up In Our Culture That Are Making It Impossible For Us To Focus On Others. We're So Self-focused.

We Think Of Violence As Being Conflict And Fighting And Wars And So Forth, But The Most Ongoing Horrific Measure Of Violence Is In The Horrible Poverty Of The Third World... And The Poverty In The United States As Well. We Have Our Own Third World Here. And We Have To First Become Aware Of That And How To Help And Solve That.

While Acting Is What I Do For A Living, Activism Is What I Do To Stay Alive.

I Don't Have Any Conscious Memory Of Wanting To Be An Actor, But Early On, There Was Something In My Makeup That I Felt Comfortable With. Then When I Was Around Five Or Six, I Started Going To The Movies And Gradually It Dawned On Me That I Was Like One Of Those People On The Screen. And That Was It. There Was Never Any Question Or Doubt About What I Was Going To Do For A Living.

The Key Word About The West Wing Is Show. It Is Not A Reality Show. It Has Nothing To Do With Reality.