If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid.

Find out who you are and try not to be afraid of it.

But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

Never, ever wear three-quarter length trousers. Even in the summer.

I've played all these extreme guys, but playing an everyman type has its own challenges.

I want to keep everything balanced. That's why it's important not to have too much fanfare.

I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

Audiences like to be challenged and to be actively involved and try to guess an outcome.

The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.

I'm not a big guy for research. You've got to take a risk.

I think in my job, it's quite difficult to find work on television... you don't necessarily want to get a profile for something that you don't fully believe in.

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

The journey to the center of your soul doesn’t start in your heart. It begins in your brain, and taking it makes you among the bravest of the brave for it’s a place only the rare dare venture.

I won’t stop caring about the world

I truly believe that women of my generation can bring a new cleansing element to American public life.

Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care.

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

The overall quantity of nuclear weapons in the world continues to decline slowly.

Nobody's American," said Wednesday. "Not originally. That's my point.

The only way you can get at the state is by dealing with its laws.

Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.