No matter how isolated or lonely or down and out you feel, there is always a way out.

I think your main draws are instinct, intuition and empathy... those things that you can't really practice.

It's much easier to have something that's absolutely definite and has a definite identity, rather than a really generic role.

Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you.

Everybody wants to make a difference, but nobody wants to be different. And you simply cannot have one without the other.

I think our fears find us and force us to confront them over and over again.

With the softest hand, you can shape the hardest rocks!

The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.

My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture any more.

Sometimes belts are flattering, and it helps with proportions.

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness. There's love and emotion trying to express itself, but at the time, it just ends up being awkward.