The Key Word About The West Wing

If All Of The Issues That I Have Worked On Were Depending On Some Measure Of Success, It Would Be A Total Failure. I Don't Anticipate Success. We're Not Asked To Be Successful, We Are Only Asked To Be Faithful. I Couldn't Even Tell You What Success Is.

Jim Dean And Elvis Were The Spokesmen For An Entire Generation. When I Was In Acting School In New York, Years Ago, There Was A Saying That If Marlon Brando Changed The Way People Acted, Then James Dean Changed The Way People Lived. He Was The Greatest Actor Who Ever Lived. He Was Simply A Genius.

It Doesn't Really Matter How Much Of The Rules Or The Dogma We Accepted And Lived By If We're Not Really Living By The Fundamental Creed Of The Catholic Church, Which Is Service To Others And Finding God In Ourselves And Then Seeing God In Everyone - Including Our Enemies.

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

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.