If you going to live by a certain code - as Bob Dylan said, you gotta serve somebody.

I was an artistic dilettante for a while, in photography and collage and the visual arts.

I'm just truly out of things to say. I'm on the record about everything.

If you going to live by a certain code - as Bob Dylan said, you gotta serve somebody.

And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit.

How it shaped my perception is this: I have become so indelibly identified as a character in pop culture that it has forced me to go deeply within myself to get a very very rock solid sense, to myself, of who I am.

I was studying acting in New York, and wasn't being hired by anyone to do anything other than to work in an Oriental rug warehouse.

Gin has produced a drunken ungovernable set of people.

Real Friends are someone who are right next to you when you got in emergency not in only parties.

I think ambition can be having something that you're good at and love to do.

I think that young readers have very strong stomachs.

We know the pain the president has caused our society and his family and his friends, but we know, too, how much the president has done for this country.

You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking.

In order to protect the physical hygiene and mental health of the living we usually bury the dead.

Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.

They're taking away the arts programmes in the schools, and that's a terrible thing.

Cultivating more leaders who reflect our heterogeneous society depends on universities' transparent use of race as one of many factors in an admissions process that is accessible to all.

I've never been afraid of much, and like any normal kid, I liked to push the limits of what I could do.

Capitalism might be defined if we wish to be scientific as a form of economic organization motivated by the pursuit of profit within a price structure.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

I don't come from a lot of money and wasn't going to get an academic scholarship, so the only way to afford an education was to allow the military to supplement it.

I've always been interested in arrival, and coming to a space, and even to looking back at where you were.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

When you criticize someone, see if you are doing it out of envy. Your criticism reveals more about yourself than you realize.

All those men have their price.

I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun.

Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

My character on 'The Good Wife' is a smaller character, and his story arcs are typically season-long, unless it's a big episode for him. His transitions take place over many, many hours.

You never know what your opportunities are going to be.

There's ego in all of us rugby players.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

We lost our way and allowed greed and excess to become the twin pillars of too much of the financial culture. We became a society utterly absorbed in consumption and dismissive of moderation.