William devane

When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said.

I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series.

What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality.

I knew with The West Wing that that wasn't going to be for very long, that I was just the red herring.

Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow what's going on if you miss a week.

Donna Mills came on the show as a female antagonist, about a year before, so now they wanted to have a male antagonist. I was cast as a Senator to shake things up.

Joey, my older brother, had his own TV show in the '50s, along with Cathy Callahan.

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

I'm an Irish-American, and I grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood.

I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.