Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and its a very strange one.

My father was a television director and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.

There are some very good people in television, but a lot of fools running it.

You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.

Weber, ... argues that... personal bias should not preclude the scientific ascertainment of objective historical facts.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

Change doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington

In the 1930s, there was a stretch where you could borrow more against the real estate than you could sell it for. I think that's what's going on in today's private-equity world.

Prophets are so dangerous because they cry in season and out of season, politely and impolitely, loud and long.

Be someone who lives with joy, with purpose, as your own light brightly shines. Be, in every moment, the special someone you are truly meant to be.

Only when the clamor of the outside world is silenced will you be able to hear the deeper vibration. Listen carefully.

On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.

You can be stupid once, but idiotic to do it again. I'll settle for being stupid.