"I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world."

"As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things."

"Picture-taking is an ensemble art - like theater."

"All I want to do is work."

"The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known."

"Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are."

"People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit."

"The test of character in leadership is how one behaves in moments of unvarnished power. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."