I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.

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.

Denial does not change reality for everyone else. Only for the one denying and those who are foolish enough to believe the fantasy.

You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.

It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.

First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members.

Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.

When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it.

Each asana is like a piece of music that has a certain characteristic, a certain power.

So what am I willing to do? Do my work heartily, unto the Lord. There is no higher accountability in life than to do something for God. So that's kind of how I operate.

The way that I rationalize making photographs is because you're countering what's offensively mass-produced with something that you just want more people to see.

When it comes down to it, I'm just a girl who wears those five-finger weird toe shoes.