Once you become an immigrant, the first thing that is taken from you is the opportunity to talk about politics and to talk about yourself as a political being.

Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.

The first right an immigrant is stripped of is the right to be political.

In a global world, we should be citizens. Dignity has no nationality.

Art and politics have many things in common.

My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

The age of a child is inversely correlated with the size of the animals it prefers.

In America, we have an infrastructure that's so bad, our roads, our highways, our schools, our tunnels, our bridges. Look at our bridges. Half of them have reports that they are in serious danger.

I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?

One must dare to be happy.

Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.

Although many of us may think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, biologically we are feeling creatures that think

I may not get a hit, but you'll see me playing hard. You see my outs, they will be quality outs.

It's not enough what I did in the past - there is also the future.

President Murabak has been a U.S. ally for decades. He was a guarantor of some degree of peace in the Middle East and has kept a good relationship with the Western world.