I have never taken my career seriously. My only ambition was to grow as an actor.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

I'm very wary of news on television.

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

A man cannot spend his life worrying about the unexpected.

I always get a little uppity when I hear the phrase 'TV actor.' It's like saying you're a magazine reporter. I was in the theater for ten years before I ever had a TV audition.

I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

The key is that I control my life; my life doesn't control me.

But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

I love to write, to sing, to make music. Not to act: I am horrible.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

No one places her dreams in the hands of those who might destroy them.

People hate negative tactics, but the fact is, as the 3 a.m. ad demonstrates, they can be very effective.

Black politics is redemption and transformation. It's not always pretty, but it's not always ugly either. I'll put India.Arie up against Donald Trump any day and let the people choose.