I still try to do what I've always said I would do, which is say yes to the things that make my heart beat faster, particularly if there's something scary about it.

There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done.

I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out.

I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this.

There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.

I know this is kind of corny, but we thought about renewing our vows again because I think my mom would really love it if we did that in Arkansas, where I came from.

I have loved by far the majority of the people I've worked with and the experiences I've had.

I love being in the business I'm in-I do love being a part of a group of people that work well together. I love it when there's a connection.

We tend to love things that are left of center anyway.

It just seemed like a lot of my work centered around England for a number of years.

Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.

Nothing is more prejudicial to war than talk.

He had memorized the entire Qur'an and lectured on the nature of evil, which, like a shadow, cannot exist independently of the good silhouettes.

If someone offers you a three picture deal at 20 you'd take it. I would have killed for it.

Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.

People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone.

Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.

Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.

And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.

If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the Earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood fire at the entrance to a cave.