I like to hire the kind of people that I would want to be on stage with.

If I hadn't gone into the theater, I would be a painter.

I think actors are brave souls that have to use parts of themselves that I'm just not comfortable doing anymore.

I think good actors - good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production - can and should offer ideas that have nothing to do with wanting to direct themselves.

I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.

The reason for the past is only revealed in the future.

From hopelessness within the mind rises hope itself

The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing.

Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful

You are someone; that's enough. Everybody's feelings are ultimately the same. The desire to be special, to be wanted, to be seen. That's the same, too.

I think a lot of women have back problems.

The desert loves me. I love the desert. It's nice to be in the heat in Africa. I love it.

It’s not in the nature of the lamb to mourn the lion.

I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do -- there are only so many notes one human being can master. .

I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.