Imagine what Ivanka Trump life has been like? She's been eaten alive by the media. I have empathy for that.

We have to raise our young boys to respect women and our young girls to demand respect and to get their values from something other than their physicality.

I'm not in love with David Petraeus. But I think he does present a terrific role model.

I haven't had senators advocating for me.

As an intelligence officer, if you don't have a security clearance, you really don't have a job. My military position was, and has been, frozen, for four years.

If I'm strong, I'm not going to apologize for being strong.

When I fell, some people were in such shock that they didn't reach out. They were so mad at me, rather than having compassion for what happened. I lost a lot of friends.

[My kids] were very young at the time and didn't realize what was going on. We told them that mom made a mistake and people want to talk about it in the news so they're outside our house.

I think the public doesn't understand that one of the reasons I haven't stood up for myself is because in order to do that, I have to stoop to a level that further humiliates other people.

It's reducing my entire professional career and background to this one word [mistress].

I was an academic and I lost my assignment at Harvard. Meanwhile, [David Petraeus] gets invited to Harvard to become a fellow.

You can't argue with insanity. You can stare at it, gaping and incredulous, but arguing with it is futile.

There is nothing to be scared of in movies. It's a bit scarier going on stage.

It so cliché to say some guys and girls need to step up, but there can be bigger stars and bigger names when people get their chance.

I'm a little bit antisocial and I recently discovered that I'm introverted. But the love between people makes me alive.

Existence is an imperfection.

It's always important for me as an actor to reflect human behavior for a sense of reality.

My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously.

Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.

The day you realize that your efforts and rewards are not related, it really frees up your calendar.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.