I've always had facility with the German accent.

I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain.

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.

I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a couple of films have come over the desk. I will probably not do either one of them.

I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.

Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.

In some roles you do that very hard work where, at some point into rehearsals, where all of a sudden it snaps into place. You feel like the soul of this character is now dwelling in you.

Some roles require a building from the foundation up; it really doesn't come to you easily.

You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

Nature chooses who will be transgender individuals don't choose this.

This democracy thing, or Demoxie, whatever it is, good god. Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.

Purity or impurity depends on oneself, No one can purify another.

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.

Perhaps not," said Will, who had ears like a bat's. "But I would make a radiant bride.

The cross is God's truth about us, and therefore it is the only power thatcanmakeustruthful.Whenwe know the cross we are no longer afraid of the truth.

The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream … Hang in there.

In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time.

I think maybe I'm trying to forget or not be so conscious about plastic circuitry and just go for the feeling.

Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose?

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.