I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.

The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.

That reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a kid.

I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.

Since the inception of Gym Class in 1997, every member has had another musical outlet, if not three or four.

It's an intuitive exercise to do a Shakespeare play and to go through a Shakespeare play.

In this world, it's kill or be killed.

Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.

Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it.

Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice “ like a beautiful, softly swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.

Give yourself another day, another chance. You will find your courage eventually. Don't give up on yourself just yet.

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.

I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity.

Charisma is the fancy name given to the knack of giving people your full attention.

Emotions are the colors of the soul; they are spectacular and incredible. When you don't feel, the world becomes dull and colorless.

Don't believe those who claim that only left wing parties really care about employment.

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.

Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.

But my favorite period for actors is the 70s. I think so many great movies were made in the 70s. The 90s just seem to be a confused decade. Nobody knows, really, what's going on.

You are always going to have people criticizing, in one way or another, for their own personal reason.

At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security.

The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.

When it was announced I had won the Tony Award, I was in Bangkok doing a movie with Judi Dench. I remember coming back from the location to the Oriental Hotel and hearing someone yelling across the reception area, 'You've won the Tony!' It was wonderful and strange to be halfway around the world.

When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space geek. I loved the space program and all things NASA. I would read books about our solar system; I had pictures of the Space Shuttle on my bedroom wall. And yes, I even went to Space Camp.

I know so many people who have gone through just not very good situations, and sometimes you just need a song to help pick you up out of it, especially if you're going through the hurting part.

We hunger for connection to a larger community.

I have always viewed thinking about arguing, about questioning, pushing back with, joking, about sharing and discovering the world and the news as enjoyable, the same way that I view watching basketball.