Patience is a virtue, but impatience gets things done.

Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I've been privileged to meet and work with.

I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.

Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their 'likes' and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.

My marriage is incredibly important to me. It's the place from which I engage in the world every day, and the place to which I return every day.

I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see.

Celebrate those who have the courage to be second, because I do think that often there really is this claustrophobic pressure to innovate instead of to adapt.

When we look at that jingoism and the sexism and the racism and the homophobia, that's not who we are, and that's not the country that I want my daughter to grow up in.

I'm a big health-food freak and a vegetarian devotee.

Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I am four.'

I love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momen

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.

The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.

Even as we continue to carry the banner of civil rights and environmental justice, we've also got to focus on many, many people - for them, life starts with a good job.

I want people to react to my work, to think, to question, to challenge, to cry and laugh and feel.

I haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice.

Life means work, and hard work, if you mean to succeed.

I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.