You feel touched and honored and alive when you give to someone.

You feel touched and honored and alive when you give to someone.

When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again.

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper.

People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power.

People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired.

I usually get recognized for Spaceballs.

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.

Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him.

I love men in bed when they are sleeping. But then they have to go and wake up.

I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.

Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's to remind myself to be more committed.

One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.

I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus.

I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children.

I cannot tell you how happy and in love I am with everything.

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from.

The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature.

I've been on shows that go for shock value.

To play a bag woman is brave for any woman.

A nation cannot be truly great without a moral compass.

Real movie producers aren't this nice.

A bachelor is a guy who leans toward women but not far enough to lose his balance.

I like everything I wear to be in sync.

Someone like Cristiano Ronaldo focuses on scoring to progress, so perhaps I need to think more about scoring.

Greater technological connectivity makes the world wider, and the walls of isolation - thinner.

I am not a fan of westerns particularly.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

I don't think the roles that I'm necessarily known for in this country are my best work, or even anywhere near it. I didn't think I was great in 'Arcadia.' I think it's a great part and a great play and had a lot of attention.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

You were the coast and I was the sea, and no matter how much I tried to take you make you mine, you refused to become a part of me.

Level, is spelled the same forward and backwards. Those on the upper level can always hit the bottom, and those on the bottom can always rank to the top. Envision your footprints up there already trailing, and your feet will soon follow suit.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film.

People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power.

I don't have one movie that is my favorite, I have about 25-30 favorites.

He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been working really hard trying to come up with something.

I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off.

Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future.

People will tell you that you can't do it, no matter what you are trying to do, so you just have to really keep at it.

But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.

We are all culpable in the death of Christ. My sins, your sins put Him on that cross.