I would never wanna do a show that's strictly maudlin and invaded my personal life and my home. I would never do that.

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved.

That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.

I don't believe in karma.

At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.

When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?

Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?

He's a Catholic, a Hindy, an atheist, a Chein, a Buddhist, a Baptist and a Jew, and he knows, he shouldn't kill.

I haven't been very active in politics.

I'm crazy about westerns. I need to do a western once in a while. It's like you know, eating bread, eating pasta, drinking wine. It's in my blood. I need it.

Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

The healthiest and holiest people are the people who laugh at themselves the most. Failure helps us take God more seriously and ourselves less seriously.

He knows that it is impossible to live in a state of complete relaxation.

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.