I think each role has had different challenges.

I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.

So ultimately I am looking for a story that has some value and is important and is entertaining.

I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.

Actually, every time I am back in New York, I read for as many plays as I can.

I think every actor should go back and do theater periodically.

Adrian Lyne is such an incredible director.

I believe it's time to put our best ideas on the table and work toward a bipartisan solution, with the single goal of leaving the Social Security system stronger than we found it.

Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren.

There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.

Our first priority is our kids.

90 percent of American schoolchildren are in public schools. And the emphasis on private schools and charter schools and parochial schools is not unimportant.

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

I think some people see me as being some kind of lovable, bumbling buffoon, and I'm actually quite mouthy and sharp, and that doesn't compute.

Everybody has fear. The difference is that the coward does not control fear and the brave... gets over it.

There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.

If you have to ask if a clothing item is a dress or a top, it is always a top.