I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.
I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.
I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties.
Live each day as if it were your last, for one day, you're sure to be right.
When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says.
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.
I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films.
It's funny because 'West Wing' is similar to 'Game of Thrones' in some ways, as it was very hard to pull off back then.
I'm not a broad comic, but I think I can be funny and I think I make people laugh.
I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
I'd love to be able to do a comedy like 'Dr. Strangelove.' I'm not a very serious person. Really, I'm very silly.
My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.
It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese.
The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that much money.
I've never chased money. It's always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.
I love the idea of writing these huge, bombastic characters; I'll stay in the superhero world as long as I can.
I've always been very comfortable in a set environment. All the collaborating going on, seeing how actors work - it all excites me.
