Michael Kelly

“Power draws you in; it's something we can gravitate toward.”

“I was in college, and I studied everything, but was really not good at anything until I found philosophy, and, then, political science. I thought, 'Wow, this is something I really enjoy.' I kind of got into that whole world of law and political science. I was really into it and enjoying it, and then I took an acting elective, and that was it.”

“This country, the people of our country, owe our military so much. These are the people that go out there and literally risk their lives to protect our freedom.”

“If I get one more person telling me I look like Eliot Spitzer, I'm just going to have to play the guy one day.”

“First and foremost, it's my mom and dad who gave me the foundation, the belief in me that I could do anything.”

“I had a dream to be an attorney. I don't know if I ever would've passed the bar or not, but that was my dream.”

“People always ask me, 'Hey, what's Matt Damon like?' He's just a dude, just a really good person and one hell of an actor.”

“In the beginning, I aspired just to make a comfortable living in acting. I still feel the same - it's just that my standards have gone up, so my comfort level is higher as well.”

“I'm pretty sure it was President Bill Clinton who brought me back into politics and following it.”

“I am a family man who has children, who is a good person, who cares about women's rights and my kids' rights and education, and I'm not a leftist elitist. I live a very normal life.”

“I play guys who never smile, and I never stop smiling.”

“Yeah, I probably got in too much trouble as a youth to be a politician.”

“I have way too shady a background to get into politics. I was a crazy kid - I was in bands, and I don't think I'd get very far before people started digging up stuff I didn't want them to see.”

“I worked construction clean-up. I was driving a pickup truck at the age of 14 on a construction site. I loved building and being part of the process. You got to see your work.”

“The most important thing you can do as an actor is bring as much of yourself to the character to ground the character in some sort of reality, and then you build around it and on top of it.”

“I learn from Kevin Spacey and Tom Hardy, watching these guys work, the things they all do differently. Tom never stops exploring and discovering, take after take. His mind never turns off.”

“I've done so many jobs. As an actor, you have to. I didn't have my parents footing the bill when I moved to New York. I moved here with, like, 300 bucks. I was a bike messenger. I was a waiter. I was a bartender. I worked in a consignment shop for high-end designers.”

“This country deserves a statesman who can represent the people with proper decorum, respect, and knowledge of what's happening in the world, and I don't believe that Donald Trump represents any of that.”

“I am definitely a Hillary, a Secretary Clinton supporter. I think that she's got the experience and the leadership capabilities to be the next president - and most importantly, her understanding of domestic and foreign policy and social issues.”

“I think Netflix is responsible for what will become how we view television.”