Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.

I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain.

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.

I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a couple of films have come over the desk. I will probably not do either one of them.

I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.

In some roles you do that very hard work where, at some point into rehearsals, where all of a sudden it snaps into place. You feel like the soul of this character is now dwelling in you.

Some roles require a building from the foundation up; it really doesn't come to you easily.

I've always had facility with the German accent.

You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

Nature chooses who will be transgender individuals don't choose this.

We have good leadership only by chance, not by management.And we need to change that!

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.

While we can prove that almost all numbers in the continuum are random, we cannot prove that any specific number is indeed random.

You can take what is handed to you and use it as an excuse to mess up. But I've always handled what was given to me by life. I consider myself lucky. I was never lied to. And I was loved.

You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.

I want teachers to teach, and I want Oreos to be eaten.

Say to Yourself when Someone Else is Criticizing U, 'What U Think of Me is None of My Business'