The actor doesn't merely command the stage, he seems to own it by divine right.

Anything But An Apologist for the Lefties and All of Their Causes.

It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. The facts change from week to week, but the sort of masquerade doesn't.

What are Americans still buying? Big Macs,Campbell's soup,Hershey's chocolate and Spam--the four food groups of the apocalypse.

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are.

I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.

The only truly shocking thing about last Tuesday's election is that the Democrats didn't do far worse, or as badly as they deserved.

The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass along at a rate peculiar to New York, and positively bewildering to a stranger.

Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years.

When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.

To be a good ruler one must be the best of servants.

Who knows, perhaps he doesn't care about me at all and look at the others in just the same way.

Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it.

Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.

Let me know myself; let others guess at me.

I love sailing. I like it more when I am winning.

Football coaches don't have real problems.

We must get rid of the idea of fulfilling what people expect us to do, and start to do what we expect from our lives.

I have a theory in life that there is no learning. There is no learning curve. Everything is tabula rasa. Everybody has to discover things for themselves.