I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.

Separation is painful, and there's such a thing as doing it too much - the limits are how much it hurts.

I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

Painting is very interesting.

I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.

I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.

The virtue of the country is that it makes you thirsty for the city.

That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.

The only way to take command of your life is to realize that you are never going to be in control of it.

Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.

We need to cooperate globally on epidemic preparedness and prevention in the same way we are cooperating globally to stop people from getting nuclear weapons.

Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.

I wrote a lot of poetry in the last two years of high school, all about the same girl I was in love with. That was pretty awful. Did you know that in poetry, every line does not need to rhyme?

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen.

A milligram of prevention is worth a kilogram of cure.

All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.

To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.