I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.

Abortion does not compute with my philosophy.

An Edward Povey hangs in my living room and every day I am reminded of his originality, his beauty, and the eternal promise of his craft.

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.

Over the course of my career, which is about 40 years, I've visited plenty of prisons and I know what they're like.

I've done a lot of television in life, and I don't remember the last time that I felt so consistently happy [working with Jenji Kohan].

I was caught in a private cycle of sadness and the only conceivable relief I could find was in the telling.

Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five or thirty, a very tough market to appeal to.

We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

You will breathe throughout your life, every moment of it, but an opportunity like this comes once in a lifetime, and not even to everyone. Go for it!

The universe belongs to you, and you belong to your conscience.

I think globalization has been really good for America.

I never get bored of a workout, because I feel great after a session.

I think that you really don't have a choice, when you see that things are wrong the only choice you really have is to just do what you can to make it better.

Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.

Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.

When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.

Life is so much easier when I allow myself to be myself and go with the flow.