If you can find the courage, if you have in your heart even the slightest bit of rebellion against injustice, maybe you can channel that and become a leader.

I went to see "The Piano" with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just gone. I couldn't focus at all. It took that creative part of my brain with it so absolutely.

The fatal problem with poetry: poems.

Don't live life hiding behind your past. Live for the moment. When you find someone you want to spend forever with, you don't let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day, a year or fifty years

No President has ever done more for human rights than I have.

To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth all the years of sorrow that are to come.

My dream would be to be on a show that shoots in New York, because I live here, and then I could walk to work.

Now that I've seen her, I can't stop seeing her.

Brazil has no future as a China with fewer people.

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

The benefits of Mouna (Silence) are incalculable.

It's not what you know, it's what you think you know.