You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick.

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political climate.

Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.

I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.

That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone.

I hate to date myself, but my earliest memories are Flash Gordon. I would love playing Flash Gordon in the neighborhood.

I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.

I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

I prefer Christmas, which is everybody's holiday. It's just my nature. I don't like to be zeroed in on en masse.

From a very early age, I started to get really interested in how songs were put to tape. Not just listening to the songs, but the way the songs were recorded.

Jobs are central to the American dream - and President Obama has focused on jobs from day one.

I love digital, but the only problem is less intimacy. People look at the screen right away. Before, nobody saw the picture before you saw the final picture. There was more privacy in a way.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.

Powerful positions are male-dominated, so it is unsurprising that everything else follows suit.