"In London they don't like you if you're still alive."

"Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't."

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life define yourself."

"And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television."

"My mother is a walking miracle."

"The family is the first essential cell of human society."

"I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government."

"As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way."