The First Thing You've Got To Do

I Wasn't Playing Nixon's Satirical Stick Figure. I Was Playing Nixon The Man. As An Actor, I Felt I Had To Get To The Deeply Flawed Humanity Of The Guy.

I've Got An Odd, Negative Bond With C. Montgomery Burns. He Reminds A Lot Of People Of Bosses They've Worked For. He Certainly Reminds Me Of Someone I'm Working For.

As A Kid, I Really Did Want To Hang Out With The Grownups, So It Was Hanging Out With The Hippest Grownups In The World. This Was The Nicest Bunch Of People I've Worked With In Show Business, With The Exception Of The People Around 'a Mighty Wind.' It Really Was A Wonderful Eight Years.

I Think Nixon Says A Lot About Those Times. It Was Possibly Hard, In The '90s And Early 2000s To Understand The Grip Of Fear That Communism Had On The Country In The 1950s And 1960s - A Fear Nixon Rode Like A Endless Great Wave On The Pacific To High Office. I'm Sure, Though There's No Evidence Of It, One Of The Things That Rankled Him Down Deep Was That It Was Called Mccarthyism And Not Nixonism.

If Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely, Does Absolute Powerlessness Make You Pure?