I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I've been cast.

The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.

I can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.

I find it weird that people want to know about you.

I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.

I'm not tortured and neurasthenic - I'm really not.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.

Be consistent in your dedication to showing your gratitude to others. Gratitude is a fuel, a medicine, and spiritual and emotional nourishment.

But I do hate him as I hate the devil.

Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.

One of the rules of plays, I feel, is to never use an extra word if you don't have to.

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.