"By temperament and disposition and emotions, I'm a liberal; but in my beliefs about what's best for the country, I'm a centrist."

"Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness."

"I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement."

"Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues."

"The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop."

"I think everyone goes through chapters in their life and there was a time when I wasn't feeling terribly positive about what I was contributing to film, or wasn't feeling as if I was going in the direction I wanted and I re-evaluated what I was doing."

"I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years."

"It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time."