I ask the clergy why don't I see myself represented in leadership? And I'm told, and this happens quite a bit, "We don't think about race when we hire. We just hire the best person for the job."

I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic.

I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.

My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.

To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.

Now they had to sit in separate places and sometimes they'd even have to sit outside and look through the windows. But they did worship together.

In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us."

I really do think that every time you play a role well, you are in danger of being identified with that role until the next big thing comes along.

I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work.

Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific.

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.

Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

An entrepreneur is a leader of excellence, trailblazer and pioneer who constantly brings change to their generation.

The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.

You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution.

For students who are in the most creative group in America to somehow be presumed to be narrow is just completely meshugga.

If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy.

All societies end up wearing masks.

I want to be in the best winning situation. I don't want to be around anybody who's just interested in playing out the season and then going home for the summer.

I think Apple's revenge is just the fact that Windows, you know, PCs all became Macintoshes in a way.