I really love that, rather than something raspy and low, Viggo goes high and vaguely sing-song-y for the voice.

I really love the (never particularly substantiated) notion that Cyphre is De Niro doing an impression of Scorsese at three-quarters speed.

"Damn. I won."

"I am the brink."

Truthfully, I like the guy and think he's underrated.

I think it was Harve Bennett who said (speaking solely about TOS now) that Star Trek, en masse, was about one third genius, one third OK, and one third *choking, vomiting noise*. And, for a multi-year TV show, that's a very acceptable ratio!

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

It would have been so easy to play Frank as a supervillain, and the writing doesn't exactly discourage that, but Carradine somehow keeps Frank's contempt for humanity believable instead of cartoonish. To this day, he's one of the best guest stars they've had.

Maybe he's a completely friendly, laid-back guy in real life and only pretends to believe these things to serve his political career. Isn't that better?

A desportic sorcerer who was only barely deposed after a Rasputin-like series of deaths?

I never expected to be attracted to a manic, genderswapped version of Egon from the Ghostbusters cartoon, and yet, here we are.

The proper plural is Danes Cook.

That said, casting Schiff as Hamilton in the first place was very right.

And FX didn't want him at first! Everybody owes Shawn Ryan some thanks, given how successful the next thirteen years wound up being for both Goggins and FX.

I've made my choice.

If they hire you as a performer and you write your own material, they don't have to pay you as a writer. And you're vastly less likely to get on the air if you don't write your own material, because it's not a given that anyone will write something for you to be in unless you're beloved like Farley or indispensible…

"No, no. No no no no, they were real respectful about it."

Patton Oswalt's random story about Tierney at a showing of Citizen Kane is a personal favorite. "Driverless tractor of a human being" seems to be the best possible summation.

Given the line about his drinking in college, I'm guessing the West Wing writers agreed.

whores.