I don't even know if I can call myself a director.

Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.

First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't any cartoon series. I mean there's no way anybody is going to take that amount of punishment in fifteen rounds.

I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.

Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn't have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab.

I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.

What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.

I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school.

The thing is, the studio then forget that you're an actor and that you can do other things, and so since they pay you for that, they don't want you to do anything else.

For me, I have to love it and feel something for it because you're going to be stuck with it for two years, and if you don't love it it's going to look like that on screen.

I don't even know if I can call myself a director.

Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.

I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.

You're 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing.

This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.

And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is.

I had to wait my turn. I had to learn that even when you're sitting behind somebody, you still have a chance to learn something every single day.

dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun.

It's inspiring, I think, for women out there to see I'm a regular person. I am the every woman who's struggled with my weight.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

Maybe I am too traditional, but men feel important when you ask for their help instead of thinking you can do it all on your own.

Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.

Somewhere along the line I made the switch and was able to look at the bight side rather than the dark side all the time. Now I look at everything I have and think how lucky I am.

Nobody really knows what makes a hit TV show.

Dont fight with the pillow but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.

Around 2001, I started analyzing lesbians. I started to realize that even really butch-acting or -dressing women still had a strong female identity that I never had.

All religions must be made child-proof. Our teachers' unions have done good work in this field, K through 12. Delaying first communions and bar mitzvahs until age 21 would be another positive step.

I don't especially like to travel, not the way many people do. I know many people that love to go to far-off and different places, and I've never been like that. I seem to get homesick as quickly as a child.

I always think it's hard for any young actor to make that transition to more grown-up roles. Because you don't want to alienate your audience who has been supportive of you for so many years, so you kind of have to tiptoe through that process.

In my case, there's no revolving door... I won't be going back to government.

As a chef and as a father, I am very upset by what's on the menu at most schools: chicken nuggets and tater tots and ketchup and pizza.

Why are all the artists so dead-set on distorting? It seems to be a reaction against photography, but I'm not sure.

General Atomics, the progenitor of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, started life in 1955 when a major military contractor, General Dynamics, feared that the military hardware market might dry up. It began exploring peacetime uses of atomic energy, but abandoned the effort when cold-war military spending took off.

I am a real New Yorker... I didn't go to Harvard, I didn't go to Yale... I rooted for the Yankees; I didn't root for the Boston Red Sox.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

Characters that are not the norm or a bit out of the ordinary are always a challenge as an actress. You learn more by using different tools for those type of characters. They are always much more fun to play and much more interesting. They take you places that you wouldn't necessarily go in your everyday life.

It never ceases to amaze me the lengths that some people will go to to try and speak to me or meet me.

If you're an only child, you spend a lot of time by yourself, and you develop a strong ability to entertain yourself, to conjure up fantasy.

I think I have character, and that is what people like in me.

There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.