For me, the only type of guilty pleasure fun that I have in terms of my career is I act once in awhile. And I don't have any responsibility.

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.

The idea of playing a part where I get to wear a completely undetectable hairpiece... you can't walk away from that.

The problem we have right now in Washington is we don't have the face of a leader.

With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in, I've acted them out just to be sure another actor can do them.

Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul.

Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

It's hard to dance to really fast music. All you can do is pump your fist to it, and after a while, you're going to have a seizure.

Divorce is not the end of the world. It's worse to stay in an unhealthy marriage. That's a worse example for the children.

The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.

Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality.

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.

That's the beauty of the future. We get to change it.

I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.

One should never send soldiers on a mission based on just good will and good intent. Unfortunately, that can mean one has to stand by and watch human rights abuses take place.