It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow.

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.

I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.

I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.

Music kept me sane between acting jobs.

I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.

Without love, I should be spiritless.

Don't let bridges you cross be bridges you burn.

For me, a dancer is part of an artist’s entertainment - “backup dancer” isn’t even in my vocabulary.

I hate being a blonde.

You always have to focus in life on what you want to achieve.

Filmmaking is like playing in your imagination and getting paid to do it. I guess I'll ride this horse until it bucks me.

We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence.