In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.

Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.

Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.

There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.

Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.

It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well...

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

In this wild world the fondest and the best Are the most tried, most troubled and distress'd.

Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there

There are no gentlemen in anything competitive - you want to win.

As an actor, your text is your bible, so you're not making a documentary, but you still have to follow the choices made by your writer.

If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time.

Where thou art gone, adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.