I have always been politically active and vaguely dissatisfied with the state of news, but I wasn't sure why.

Journalism and the questions of journalistic ethics, and why certain stories are put on the air, when, how and for what reasons, are big questions in our culture and society.

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do.

Having the audience know more than the characters is precisely where you want to be in terms of drama. You can engage them much more when that is the case.

Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game. You can't let it get to you.

As an actor playing a character, I can't come in with my judgement, or else I can't play it honestly. My judgement has to be reserved for later.

I'm so super interested in what it is to stir things up and to listen to people.

I am very interested in asking questions, and I am very interested in being involved in shows that ask people to think and feel.

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.

Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells

To forgive is the vocation of all Christians.

I've got an accountant who's been with me forty years. If he makes a mistake, he dies.

For me, when I'm coming up to a place where I have to make somebody up, it's almost like driving and taking your hands off the wheel.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

My heart is sand and Orion's cruel tide has washed it away from me, scattered it, lost it.

Guys are like dogs. They keep comin' back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time, they're gone.

I have to be real cool and not savage and radical, because it makes me angry when I think about it when I see the white boys, who are really the number one citizens, the future rulers.

You should be more careful. You could have broken your neck or as big as you are landed on someone and killed them. (Tory)