The thing I worry about for myself is I spend a lot of time alone, and another person comes around and you're like, 'What are you doing here? Get out of here.

I work in the '60s more than I've done anything else. I did a movie, called Down with Love, in the '60s. I did a movie for HBO, about the Johnson administration in the '60s.

To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.

Nobody could ever say as many terrible things to me as I say to myself.

I remember feeling the temperature change the first time the curtain came up, the difference between the audience temperature and the stage temperature. I'll never forget it.

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.

If I had my druthers, I would be working in all different mediums, forever.

I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.

I think it's very important for people to not judge the people you're playing. You have to find a way to love them because their story is theirs. I just don't think there would be any use in that.

All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.

You can’t prepare for the details of every single possible thing that might come your way in the future, because the future is uncertain.

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.

I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.

When a group of people get together, it's collective power. You know that you're doing it for the good.

For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

A certain blue enters your soul

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic.

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

People don't buy drills they buy holes