You just don't understand humility until you have children and get divorced.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

I'm very wary of news on television.

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.

I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.

I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen.

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

I think the first important thing is that usually most textbooks are not written by their authors. And so by author I mean the people who did not write them; so it's a new definition of "author."

Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama of reproduction.

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.

Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse

Where people really base their principles has nothing to do with the color of someone's skin, it has to do with money and their class.