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“It's one thing to know your lines, another to be able to deliver them. The taste of the pudding is in the delivery.”

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The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate.

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For me, an actor is a person who makes characters like a cobbler makes shoes.

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Having been born and raised in Washington, D.C., you kind of absorb politics when you grow up. And it continues to be a focus…

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I do a little Reddit, yeah! I pop in every now and again.

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I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have…

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I find that the work I do as an actor that's most challenging commands an athleticism or, certainly, a physicality. And also a rigor,…

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I do have characters who are more well known than I am, which suits me fine.

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Some of my earliest heroes were congresswomen like Shirley Chisholm and Barbara Jordan.

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I started acting when I was at Amherst my junior year, and my lacrosse career kind of started to flop sideways after that.

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I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around…

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I'm gonna be on the Hawaiian beaches when I'm old.

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New York is the greatest character actor ever. Any film that is shot in New York is elevated by the city.

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