Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper

When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.

I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus.

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination

People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power

Leaves lift trees.

I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.

It's because the door hasn't been closed yet that the nightmares still find their way in.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

Love is to be nurtured, protected, and respected, and entered into with a clear mind and a sound heart.

Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.

The subject, however various and important, has already been so frequently, so ably, and so successfully discussed, that it is now grown familiar to the reader, and difficult to the writer.

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.

The world protested our invasion of Iraq, but the people of America were never made aware of that - through the censorship that goes on here, and believe me it's going on here.

We really shouldnt be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.