When actors go onstage, you know immediately if they can do their job. You can be a lawyer or an accountant for years and not find out.

Unless you connect to the text, the audience won't be able to connect with you.

You have to learn to work and search, not expect instantly to find.

I'm regularly asked, 'What's a good voice?' I often answer, 'One that I don't notice'. I would also add, one which makes me notice things about a spoken text

You can’t act Shakespeare until you can speak him.

We all are so deeply interconnected

Any good thing will be ruined by talking negatively about it

A friend must not be injured even in jest.

In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

My brothers are my backbone. My parents are my oxygen. I can't live without them.

Islam should be compared to other totalitarian ideologies like Communism or Fascism.

A faint smile that made every tiny hair on her body rise in quivering attention. "How fast can you run?" A wolf's question.

The ability to talk well is to a man what cutting and polishing are to the rough diamond. The grinding does not add anything to the diamond. It merely reveals its wealth.

You don't want to just do a joke because it works - we can make a lot of jokes work - you want to do a joke because it will hopefully build into an argument.

It is tempting to deny, but if you deny you confirm what you won't deny.