Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

I was a volleyball player as a kid. I played volleyball all the time.

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.

I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive.

Certainly, for me, and it's gone this way on every project I've worked on, the "writing" never ends until you're done with the movie.

The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.

My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.

Everything I've written up to now, hasn't had anything to do with my life really.

A vague uneasiness the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.

People!" she screamed. "There are people here! New people!

Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

My mentality is that when I go to sleep at night, I'm a better martial artist than when I woke up in the morning.

The world is full of actors pretending to be human

Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.

A lady getting a missing belt back from the cleaner couldn't have been more surprised and pleased.

I instruct you to be the obeyer, A rhythm recipe that you'll savor, Doesn't matter if you're minor or major, Yes, the Tribe of the game, rhythm player, As you inhale like a breath of fresh air

Physical pain is easily forgotten, but a moral chagrin lasts indefinitely.

It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.