I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.

I work in the '60s more than I've done anything else. I did a movie, called Down with Love, in the '60s. I did a movie for HBO, about the Johnson administration in the '60s.

To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.

The thing I worry about for myself is I spend a lot of time alone, and another person comes around and you're like, 'What are you doing here? Get out of here.

Nobody could ever say as many terrible things to me as I say to myself.

I remember feeling the temperature change the first time the curtain came up, the difference between the audience temperature and the stage temperature. I'll never forget it.

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.

If I had my druthers, I would be working in all different mediums, forever.

I think it's very important for people to not judge the people you're playing. You have to find a way to love them because their story is theirs. I just don't think there would be any use in that.

All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.

You Don't Have To Be A Crook To Be Successful!

You know enough of me to believe me when I say I am not going anywhere. Not without you. You stay, I stay. You’re not a fling, Amelia. For me, you are the reason to stop running.

In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it...The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all through life.

If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.

Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.

It doesn't pay to listen much to what human beings have to say in their evaluation of you, since they don't evaluate themselves very properly.

From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.

Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.

Nobody wants to hear me rap.

I like to have space to spread my mind out in.