What's the difference in wanting someone you don't like to vanish and dreaming about a world in which they don't exist? They're just two ways of saying the same thing.

We spend much of our lives going about completely blind to reality, and yet we still have the gall to act victimized when it invariably catches up to us.

We were not destined to survive. The fact is, we were not destined at all. The war would take what it could get.

The life of a man, no matter how humble, no matter how powerful can be condensed to a single moment ... the moment he has found the woman he will love for life.

Some men are so willing to know their future, but unwilling to face the fear of their own death.

I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

It was just hilarious how my first reaction was, "Oh, no, it's another vampire show. I'm not interested." And then, I read the script and thought it was brilliant.

I have my shortcomings. But the message, it has no shortcomings. The message of Liberty is what America is all about.

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.

It seems to me everything Shakespeare did was political.