No, I'm not a Republican working in Hollywood, I am a Democrat.

I work in the '60s more than I've done anything else. I did a movie, called Down with Love, in the '60s. I did a movie for HBO, about the Johnson administration in the '60s.

To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.

The thing I worry about for myself is I spend a lot of time alone, and another person comes around and you're like, 'What are you doing here? Get out of here.

Nobody could ever say as many terrible things to me as I say to myself.

I remember feeling the temperature change the first time the curtain came up, the difference between the audience temperature and the stage temperature. I'll never forget it.

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.

If I had my druthers, I would be working in all different mediums, forever.

I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.

I think it's very important for people to not judge the people you're playing. You have to find a way to love them because their story is theirs. I just don't think there would be any use in that.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

I said school starts tomorrow. I didn’t say I was going to be there.

I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.

Who are we to wish for Paradise? It will be enough if Allah spares us his wrath.

What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever.

They [the Reagan Administration] want to put street criminals in jail to make life safer for the business criminals. They're against street crime, providing that street isn't Wall Street.

The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented.

Adrenalin dispels boredom. Run, you sufferers from ennui! Run for your lives!

How can we trust a religion that has advocated slavery and the subjugation of women throughout history?