The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.

You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.

Do not drown yourself into fantasy, whatever you can do, do it now, do not wait for tomorrow to come.

Disagreement is something normal.

Death is something you cannot escape, such as death, or a cheesecake that has curdled, both of which always turn up sooner later.

You have options when it comes to abortion now. It's not like 1955 when you just had to kick her down a staircase and hope for the best... you feed her a tapeworm and hope it takes a left at the Y.

The stop-watch of history is running. The race is on . . .

The awful thing is that you can never be aware of what you are not aware of.

We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine

I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.

The Fed is the greatest hedge fund in history.