I decided if you're lucky enough to be alive, you should use each birthday to celebrate what your life is about.

There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done.

I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out.

I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this.

There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.

I know this is kind of corny, but we thought about renewing our vows again because I think my mom would really love it if we did that in Arkansas, where I came from.

I have loved by far the majority of the people I've worked with and the experiences I've had.

I love being in the business I'm in-I do love being a part of a group of people that work well together. I love it when there's a connection.

I still try to do what I've always said I would do, which is say yes to the things that make my heart beat faster, particularly if there's something scary about it.

We tend to love things that are left of center anyway.

It just seemed like a lot of my work centered around England for a number of years.

This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.

His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.

I don't run outside, honestly. Sometimes I go out around my house, but mainly it's the stupid treadmill. I wish I had a better answer, but I'm very businesslike about my runs.

We are stronger together. We are stronger together in facing our internal challenges and our external ones.

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

I feel that women 'and men,' but I mean the 'individual,' can be totally feminine and still be totally powerful.

Where are you going?” “To get a Coke!” “Would you—” “No!

It's all about one thing: creative problem-solving to get the story out.

Artists see the world in a very different way than everyone else, and it's important when the artist points a lens at the law.

Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a thousand to make the Pass.