What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.

And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.

To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.

Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.

There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence.

People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

I think a lot of people think it's easy to just post stuff. They think it's the easy way to fame nowadays, but it's been hard. You have to film the video, which takes forever because I'm super picky about all my takes and stuff. Then you have to edit it and upload it, and doing that three times a week is very, very difficult.

As far as the leading man/romantic lead, I'll tell you what, I really enjoyed my experience more than I thought or imagined I would on 'Catch and Release.' God bless them if they want to give me another shot at that. I would love to have that as something I can go to on occasion.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

Our country will not stand for any political plan that includes amnesty for insurgents.

At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.

My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.

What I loved about 'The 40 Year-Old Virgin,' the title is the easy sell, but when you see the movie, the comedy is more free-form and more relatable.

Every day I get more and more honest.

Its just a crime that people dont take the time and make the effort to have a conversation if its bothering them that much.

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

I am a private person; I think that's important if you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

A common soldier will make an empire, but he will eventually meet his fate and be condemned to the Great Rock.

This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.

'Green' does not have to mean the sort of hair-shirt, wood-burning-stove sensibility of the '70s. Green can and should be sleek and modern.

Ever since I was young, I was always interested in exploring spirituality. I know that there are many paths to God, there is not just one path.

The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.

My plan B, if acting doesn't work out, is to work with disabled children.

A budget matters to Americans who can't afford to see their taxes go up or lose the jobs that would be destroyed in the process.

When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training for its next deployment.

When you do a movie, you don't know when it's going to come out. In a year, you forget about it.

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

The essence of true nobility is neglect of self.

In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!

Vice presidents are at times tasked with issuing direct broadsides against enemies while the top guy stays above the fray. But never before has a vice president served as an attack dog against his own party's voters.