Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.
Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.
This election ain't no stinkin' TV show.
I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.
Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to. . . y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it.
I am an old, old friend of Aaron Sorkin's, who is the executive producer and writer. He had been talking about doing a political show for a long time and I had been interested in it for a long time. The moment I became available, he called me last year and asked me if I wanted to do it and then I just had to audition for the powers that be, and I got it.
I have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they're coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren't conservative. These guys are radicals.
I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
I would love to do a movie naked; it would be beautiful. No one dares make that kind of film today. They did it in the 1930s in an arty way, so why not now?