I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

I really, really love Hilary Clinton. I think she's very cool. She's out there and she's involved.

There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.

I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.

I really have a problem with any kind of drug, I always have.

Gayness is a non-issue.

I'm sure that Jesus was an incredible person.

The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.

I don't believe in karma.

I like the energy of live performance.

When you're constantly looking for things from other people, you're not looking within yourself.

Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.

There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women's success. It's very disappointing.

I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.

I think I've drawn from some of the most feminine women, like Jackie Kennedy. I am totally devastated that she's gone. She had it all.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

I don't like surgery. I don't like elective surgery, I don't like surgery that you have to have.

Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty.

Smut, if it's really smut, there's nothing backing it up. It's the easy way out.

I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.

When you're watching the news, how many days in a row can you watch that and feel good about yourself and the world?

That disturbs people when they know they didn't have the guts or integrity to stick to their dreams.

I'm studying Kabbalah, which is really the essence of Jewish spirituality.

When people pay to see you live, they connect with you on a much deeper level than people who just buy your records.

Things are so scary and intimidating with AIDS and the right wing that people are looking for somebody to just give them safe harbors.

A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.

A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

One way or another, Gaza's residents must live in peace with Israel.

I guess I just want everything to be available immediately.

I feel intensely guilty for working... You have to be able to provide for your kids. But I feel like it's a weird modern phenomenon that you always feel guilty for it.

Failure is an importance part of your growth… Don’t be afraid to fail.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.

I think Gov. Romney and Congressman Ryan are living in a fairly tale land on their energy policy.

Less revenue, more people, more freight, more gridlock - that is not a formula for success.

I didn't have my first child until I was 40. I actually learned about motherhood from management.

Judaism, I would argue, does demand love for our fellow human beings, but only to an extent. 'Hate' is not always synonymous with the terribly sinful.

The more you look, the more you will see.

If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!

When I first got into acting, I never had any long-term goals, never had any plan. I just thought it would be a good way to make some extra money.

I've always been a history buff. It was one of the few subjects at school that really, really caught me. I think you'll find a lot of actors will be interested in history because it sparks your imagination so much. When you enter a period of history, your imagination just goes wild in creating the world, which is really what acting is.

I've never read anything set in Belfast that doesn't involve the Troubles or something senseless over a flag.

Armed drones have become Barack Obama's way to engage in terrorist-infested hellholes without putting 'boots on the ground.' For years, the CIA has been running a secrecy-shrouded program of targeted killings in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen, and more recently in Somalia, Syria and Iraq.