I knew I wanted to be an actor, and my mother said, 'Call Aaron Sorkin.' It seemed dubious that I'd make it as an actor by calling Jews I knew, but it worked.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.
Aaron Sorkin has been incredibly good to me; I don't know that I would have an acting career without him. Thanks to him, people think I'm smart and nice, but I'm neither.
I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.
I thought people would think I only wanted to be an actor because my dad was, rather than because I had an innate calling.
When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, 'I think I heard you say lawyer.'
So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
My father was an actor, and my mother was his agent, so I had it on both sides: the crazy actor and his representation.
Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.
I've been called 'the voice actor.'
I worked on a show called 'West Wing' before. I didn't work with Aaron Sorkin, but he created the show and set the tenor of the show, which was you follow the words of the script perfectly because there's a dramaturgical thing behind it.