Theres something magical about theater. You can live the character every single day to the point where you become that person.

I spent my summers in Connecticut scooping ice cream and babysitting.

The arts have always been in and around my life.

Im just lucky to have great parents. My sisters an actress. My brothers a musician. I found it hard growing up in such a... creatively driven family. I wanted to have this thing to create, myself.

I wanted to be an Olympic swimmer when I was growing up.

My dads great. Hes an amazing artist. A sculptor. Hes wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him - we talk about... everything.

I played lacrosse for a hot second, but I was mainly a swimmer - captain of my swim team.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

(Ars longa vita brevis.) Art is long life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

I'm very inspired by past music.

Why, exactly, are scientists supposed to accord "respect" to a bunch of ancient fables that are not only ludicrous on their face, but motivate so much opposition to science?

Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.

Someday you're really going to have to describe to me in more detail what life is like on the planet you live on. Because it sounds really great, and I'd like to visit there one day.

Do not focus on being happy, focus on doing something useful; afterwards, happiness will flow towards you!

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?

Pol Pot carried out through the years enormous purges against his own followers because of his paranoia.