"I've never wanted to do anything but act. It saved my life, it's the reason I get up in the morning, it's my opiate. The prize for me was always getting the next gig so I could do this wonderful thing that I love. So this, my friends, is deliciously redundant." quando gli diedero un Emmy per la serie tv West Wing - Tutti gli uomini del Presidente.

(John Spencer, attore; New York, 20 dicembre 1946 – Los Angeles, 16 dicembre 2005)